[fedora-arm] Re: Help testing suspend on arm

On 08/29/2018 08:12 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>> On 08/21/2018 11:40 AM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> While testing upstream kernel on some devices, I've recently
>>>> discovered that suspend was broken for "distro kernel" (not only
>>>> related to fedora kernel, but also ubuntu).
>>> On the Fedora users list we have had a terrible time with suspend on
>>> F28. 4.17.3 was ok, but then broke with 4.17.4 and was not, for the
>>> most part, fixed until 4.17.11. But still even with 4.17.14 a number
>>> of us are still reporting that suspend fails the first time with the
>>> system immediately restarting and then when you unlock your system and
>>> suspend again, that 'takes'.
>> And we have been getting a weekly kernel update on F28 64 for some time
>> now. I cannot remember another Fedora release where the kernel updates
>> have come so frequently for so long.
> Well there's been just one or two major vulnerabilities this year
> (spectre/meltdown) that have been a major reason for some of these so
> it's not unexpected, at least for those that vaguely sort of follow
> the security industry.
>
Not my area of security industry.  Protocol design takes up all my
cycles.  But I did hear of these.

How would suspend work with no swap partition?  I have to spend a little
time working out how to use gparted to add a swap partition to a sata HD.

And I can't test out suspend until I get a system with Xfce running. 
Suspend is not interesting on a minimal image.



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