On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:27:38 +0100
Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Benoît Dejean schrieb:
> > Le dimanche 25 novembre 2007 à 20:11 +0100, Tim Dijkstra a écrit :
> >> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:44:49 +0100
> >> Benoît Dejean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> >>> \echo -n mem > /sys/power/state 
> >>> -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
> >> Than suspend to ram has never worked on your machine with pm-utils.
> > 
> > It was not recommended with previous versions, so i haven't got it.
> > 
> >>>> So this needs a quirk/fix/workaround in pm-utils.
> >> All quirks are in the uswsusp package. If you install it you'll have
> >> a binary s2ram, that will use some iotcl to suspend the machine.
> >>
> >> pm-utils recommends it, so under normal circumstances you should have
> >> it.
> > 
> > Since uswusp is not installable on PPC ...
> 
> Well, initially pm-utils contained a small utility called pm-pmu, which
> just did that: poke /dev/pmu via ioctl, to put ppc machines to sleep.
> 
> Tim decided to keep pm-utils a arch:all package and not ship this tool
> in pm-utils and instead rely on s2ram from uswsusp, to avoid duplicated
> functionality (and imho his reasons are sound).
> 
> Tim, why is uswsusp not available on PPC (and only for i386/amd64)? Is
> it because of s2ram or s2disk? Should the uswsusp packge be split? Could
> we support more platforms this way?

I added ppc support to uswsusp and also update the control file with an
`Architecture: i386 amd64 powerpc' line. But apparently it doesn't get
build. I now vaguely remember that there also is some override
somewhere. Maybe I have to bug ftp-master for that? Any idea Michael?

grts Tim

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