Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 4 Aug 96 18:09 MESZ | From | (Lutz Pressler) | Subject | (fwd) Implement "suspend to disk" in kernel/loader? |
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Path: news.gwdg.de!avca.uni-geophys.gwdg.de!lpressl From: lpressl@avca.uni-geophys.gwdg.de (Lutz Pressler) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,gwdg.linux Subject: Implement "suspend to disk" in kernel/loader? Date: 4 Aug 1996 16:04:35 GMT Organization: GWDG, Goettingen Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4u2hmj$3ql@gwdu19.gwdg.de> Reply-To: Lutz Pressler <lpressl@Carl-F.Uni-Geophys.GWDG.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: avca.uni-geophys.gwdg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: news.gwdg.de comp.os.linux.development.system:31615 gwdg.linux:301
Hello,
many modern notebooks have a BIOS which is capable to save the (used) memory, processor registers etc. to hard disk (mostly to empty space of a FAT partition). Unfortunately there are notebooks (even new ones) which don't have this feature. That I own such a thing is the main reason (despite that someone may not have a FAT partition, may have a desktop system etc., ...) for asking why it shouldn't be possible to realize this within the Linux kernel and loader (LILO). I am not an expert on the Linux boot process, but shouldn't it be possible to save (after disabling interrupts etc.) the used memory (in a first attempt maybe even the whole memory) and other status information onto disk (unused swap space, ...)? LILO would have to recognize such a situation and continue from there.
Any comments?
Regards, Lutz
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