uswsusp with Fedora default kernel?

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Wed May 9 09:44:37 UTC 2007


Hi,

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:38:16AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 23:13 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
> > just a question, whether somebody made uswsusp working with Fedora
> > Core 6? Old kernel is unacceptably slow for me, and I need
> > ndiswrapper so kernel-suspend2 package is not an option, because I
> > would have to recompile the driver all the time. uwsusp being in
> > mainline kernel seems to be the only option, but apparently
> > uswsusp is not packaged for Fedora Core 6 -- of course, I could
> > package the program myself, but I am afraid of fiddling with
> > mkinitrd, which in Fedora seems to be extremely unflexible (or may
> > be I got it wrong).
> > 
> > Are there packages available somewhere where I haven't found them 
> > yet, or could at least somebody point me please to some HOWTO on 
> > changing mkinitrd (what should I do to make uswsusp work, and how 
> > to made it into package)? And of course there are issues with 
> > SELinux as well.
> > 
> > I have made experimental package available on 
> > http://matej.ceplovi.cz/progs/rpms/suspend-0.50.20070328-6.3.1.src.rpm 
> > (binary RPMs and .spec file are available in the same place), but 
> > they don't work for me (because of SELinux, and because I haven't 
> > modified mkinitrd).
> > 
> > Thanks for any hint,
> > 
> > Matěj Cepl
> 
> I'm not sure about uswsusp packaging either. Come to that, I'm not
> sure about packaging of that suspend to ram tool (s2ram?).
> 
> I should also ask, why would you have to recompile the driver all
> the time for a kernel-suspend2 package? http://mhensler.de/swsusp/
> provides FC6 Suspend2 RPMS.

Matthias also maintains them at ATrpms

http://atrpms.net/dist/fc6/kernel-suspend2/

so that all kmdl support at ATrpms can be made available for this
kernel series, like for example the ndiswrapper support on

http://atrpms.net/dist/fc6/ndiswrapper/
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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