Subject: Re: SOC project idea
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/08/2007 21:18:46
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:44:08AM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Mar 8, 2007, at 11:25 AM, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >
> >>On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:05:02PM +0200, Alexander V. Butenko wrote:
> >>>Hello,
> >>>
> >>>It seems that only me is is missing suspend to ram function in  
> >>>netbsd.
> >>>Now its implementation is far from ideal.
> >>>Maybe its implementation can be improved during google summer of  
> >>>code?
> >>
> >>This is something quite complext and hightly hardware-dependant.
> >>I don't think it's appropriate for SOC, especially because of the  
> >>wide
> >>range of hardware this needs to be tested on ...
> >
> >	But I would think getting a reference implementation for a set of
> >	hardware could be, though I would expect a 'suspend to disk' to be
> >	much more interesting and generally applicable.
> 
> I'll amend that further, and make that suspend to swap.

I would love this. But it's a way to large projet for SOC.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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