Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Jan 2004 15:07:35 +1300 | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | Subject | Re: Announce: Software Suspend Core Patch 2.0 rc4. |
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Hi.
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 10:35, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > including urls might be nice. > > also the feature comparison webpage > does not mention bios at all.
True. Feel free to produce a column; I don't have any experience with BIOS support for suspending, so don't know what it can/can't do and whether this varies from computer to computer.
> Till now I used SOFTWARE_SUSPEND because > it works fine, whereas PM_DISK somehow uses the > bios, and does not work (dell latitude c600, > I don't have that magic partition the dell bios > expects). > > SWSUSP2 will be like SWSUSP concerning this issue?
I'm not sure that PM_DISK does use the bios. In fact, I'm pretty sure it doesn't. Feel free to prove me wrong.
Regarding the relationship with SOFTWARE_SUSPEND, the answer is yes. Software Suspend 2 works in a very similar way to Software Suspend.
Nigel
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