On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 13:01:37 -0600 Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
> > Just following the conversation for information purposes, but I have > > questions. If systemd-boot were to be used as boot service, could > > the hibernate image be written to /boot/efi in place of the kernel > > and initramfs, or in parallel? Would systemd-boot be able to use > > it? Would that satisfy the encrypted and signed requirements? > > No to all sadly. > > On Linux, neither GRUB or sd-boot directly consume the hibernation > image to perform resume. Bootloader and firmware based hibernation > resumption is found on Windows and macOS (there are many hibernation > implementations on Windows). On Linux, this is a kernel feature, so > the bootloader loads kernel and initramfs and boots normally; the > kernel uses a kernel parameter hint(s) to discover the location of the > hibernation image within swap. And voila. > > I think the kernel does have code to support Intel Rapid Start. This > is a firmware based hibernation resume implementation, so first the > firmware must support it. But honestly have no idea if it works > exactly like it does on Windows. At least on Windows it requires a > dedicated partition expressly for the hibernation image. And the > firmware's Intel Rapid Start function is given a hint at hibernate > time so i knows at next power on that it should resume from this > hibernation image directly. > > Anyway, it would take work to build a generic implementation supported > in either bootloader. Thanks for the information. Too bad. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
