Re: [ACPI] S4bios support

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:41:39 +0100


Hi!

> > S4bios is easier to use [no possibility to boot into wrong kernel;
> > machine actually indicates it is sleeping, not powered down], has
> > nicer progress bars, etc... I'd like to see it in. Please apply,
>
> May I ask what s4bios does compared to "just s4" ? Does the kernel still
> dump its core to swap or what happens ?

Yes, kernel suspends into swap space. See documentation/swsusp.txt for
details... You might want to add some details ;-).
Pavel

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