Re: Help port swsusp to ppc.

From: Nigel Cunningham
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 13:29:46 EST


I'm really interested to see how you are going to initiate and execute
the suspend.

Perhaps I'm just ignorant, but I can't see how you can do it without
resorting to the same tricks we use now with regards to CPU context. I
think you're going to find yourself reinventing the wheel.

Regards,

Nigel

> I plan to run everything provided by the suspended kernel actually. My idea
> is to keep a handle to a page of the suspended kernel that contains that
> code and just kick into it. Copying pages to their final location without
> overriding the source pages is a bit of a funky job, but I had to do it
> already with BootX so ... I'll work on that during one of the upcoming few
> weeks hopefully, I'm a bit swamped with 3 different things at the moment.
>
> ben.
>
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