Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.

Marek Vasut [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 02/01/12 22:31, Marek Vasut wrote:

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I don't think there is anyway to avoid the memory requirement if

we want

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to be able to resume transparently to user-space (or even resume

at all

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in some setups).

Well ... injecting firmware into kernel with some userland helper

just

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before suspend is no-go?

Its a perfectly good idea but you still need the full memory

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during the suspend.

Hm ... and we can't have memory type that "can be swapped-out, but must
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loaded back before suspend" in kernel, right?

Nope. Kernel swapping is a big headache and Linux doesn't do it. The only thing we can do is drop any clean cache pages, but that has performance implications.

Thanks,

Jack

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