Tim Dijkstra schrieb:
> 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?
> 

CCed the powerpc buildd mailing list.

Please schedule builds for uswsusp on powerpc and let us know if there
are any problems with the new version 0.7-1 on powerpc.

Cheers,
Michael


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