Hi. On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 08:43, Pavel Machek wrote: > > You guys are reinventing the wheel a lot at the moment and I'm in the > > middle of doing it for x86_64 lowlevel code :> Can we see if we can work > > a little more closely - perhaps we can get some shared code going that > > will allow us to handle these issues without stepping on each others' > > feet? In particular, shared code for > > > > - initramfs and initrd support > > Its actually done, and it was few strategically placed lines of code > (like 20 lines). I do not think it can be meaningfully shared.
Mmm. But if we're both putting hooks in the same places... > > - lowlevel suspend & resume > > This makes very good sense to share. We have i386, x86-64 and ppc > versions. They simply walk list of pbe's; that should be simple enough > to be usable for suspend2, too.... The CPU save and restore, yes. But I use a different format for recording the image metadata (I use bitmaps to record the locations of pages). Perhaps I should hasten to mention the bitmaps are discontiguous - single pages connected by a kmalloc'd list. The copyback itself will need to stay distinct. Regards, Nigel -- Nigel Cunningham Software Engineer, Canberra, Australia http://www.cyclades.com Bus: +61 (2) 6291 9554; Hme: +61 (2) 6292 8028; Mob: +61 (417) 100 574 Maintainer of Suspend2 Kernel Patches http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
