Subject: Re: SOC project idea
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/08/2007 21:33:03
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> 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.

 	Getting all the devices to handle state is beyond SoC, but having
 	the framework to save and restore memory state, and probably basic
 	(serial) console reset could be about fine.

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