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authorPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>2002-07-02 03:03:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@home.transmeta.com>2002-07-02 03:03:27 -0700
commit55eebc460dcad11fcfbe10be5da3374240914582 (patch)
tree56d9e134216842ca9f8a633a60d334d21b29b74d
parentaaf680ea282ca196f69061476ab0e4863482e200 (diff)
[PATCH] suspend-to-disk documentation updates
-rw-r--r--Documentation/swsusp.txt13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/swsusp.txt
index 7c7373ae8f30..88bcefb64403 100644
--- a/Documentation/swsusp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/swsusp.txt
@@ -122,11 +122,9 @@ Things to implement
interrupts AFAIK..
- We should only make a copy of data related to kernel segment, since any
process data won't be changed.
-- By copying pages back to their original position, copy_page caused General
- Protection Fault. Why?
- Hardware state restoring. Now there's support for notifying via the notify
chain, event handlers are welcome. Some devices may have microcodes loaded
- into them. We should have event handlers for them aswell.
+ into them. We should have event handlers for them as well.
- We should support other architectures (There are really only some arch
related functions..)
- We should also restore original state of swaps if the ``noresume'' kernel
@@ -149,6 +147,15 @@ Not so important ideas for implementing
- If X is active while suspending then by resuming calling svgatextmode
corrupts the virtual console of X.. (Maybe this has been fixed AFAIK).
+Drivers we support
+- IDE disks are okay
+- vesafb
+
+Drivers that need support
+- pc_keyb -- perhaps we can wait for vojtech's input patches
+- do IDE cdroms need some kind of support?
+- IDE CD-RW -- how to deal with that?
+
Any other idea you might have tell me!
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