Richard Purdie wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 20:02 +0800, Cui, Dexuan wrote: >> Richard Purdie wrote: >>> For reference if you want to do suspend to disk (swap) you need a >>> lot of swap space btw. Still no where near that much though! >> >> Does (or should )Yocto Linux support suspend-to-disk? I'm not sure >> about this. BTW: Linux can alse use a regular file as swap area. >> So in case the swap size is not enough (e.g., for suspend-to-disk), I >> think a user could create a big enough file to meet the need (I >> didn't test this with Linux yet). > > I don't think we've supported it in the past, its just a datapoint to > keep in mind. Ok, so I can put a comment when I make the patch, saying this new algorithm doesn't work with suspend-to-disk in future.
> For reference, you can't use a file easily since the VM data needs to > be available as the kernel boots to be able to resume from it. I admit I didn't try this on Linux. Windows does use a regular file when doing suspend-to-disk, so I thought Linux could do it, too... :-) Thanks, -- Dexuan _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core