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On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 david@lang.hm wrote: > >> for a pure hibernate mode, you will be powering off the box after saving > >> the suspend image. why are there any special ACPI modes involved? > > > > Because, for example, on my machine the status of power supply (present > > vs not present) is not updated correctly after the restore if ACPI callbacks > > aren't used during the hibernation. That's just experience and it's in line > > with the ACPI spec. > > so if a machine is actually powered off the /dev/suspend process won't > work? > > remember that the system may run a different OS between the hibernate and > the resume, makeing any assumptions about what state the hardware is in > when you start the resume is a problem. As I understand it, running a different OS between the hibernate and the resume would violate the ACPI spec. Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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