Re: [PATCH] PRELIMINARY: Add support for hibernation.

[Tomáš Čech]

Hi Mark,

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 04:03:26AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Hello Guix,
>
> Here's a preliminary patch to add support for hibernation.  To enable
> it, you'll also need to add a line like this to your 'operating-system'
> definition.
>
>  (kernel-arguments '("resume=/dev/sda2"))
>
> Where the device named is a swap partition.
>
> WARNING: Since this is preliminary work, I recommend that the first time
> you test this, be prepared for the possibility that resume will fail.
> So far I've only tested it with simple partitions, without encryption or
> RAID.
>
> It may be that we should add a dedicated 'resume-device' field to the
> 'operating-system'.  Thoughts?

That sounds useful. Small note, in all cases I have seen it was using
swap partition - it could be good default value when finished.

S_W

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