On Tuesday, 17 July 2007 22:39, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > david@xxxxxxx writes: > > [snip] > > > the non-ACPI hibernate behaves very differently, and for some people (and I > > think I am one of them) it will meet their needs better then _any_ of the ACPI > > suspends. > > It may have certain differences from the user point of view, but from > the implementation view, it seems that it is nearly exactly the same. > The only differences seem to be: > > - rather than shutting down, do whatever is necessary to stick the > system in S4 state. > > - make sure ACPI isn't initialized by the "load image" kernel > > - rather than "resume from hibernate" ACPI by initializing it normally, > issue the special hibernate-related methods. > > Thus, it seems that supporting ACPI S4 will have a very minimal affect > on the hibernate implementation. Still, you need to take it into account. Greetings, Rafael -- "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
