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On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 05:23:46PM -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> That said, an OS-level suspend-to-disk would be an awesome summer-of-code
> project.

I don't think it is feasible as SoC project without previous knowledge
and interaction with at least the ACPI suspend-to-RAM code (or
alternative the low-level boot code) and VM knowledge (both MI and MD).
I believe it can be done in 3 month though.

Joerg