On Friday 14 May 2004 4:36 pm, lbios_kk@redfenix.com wrote:
I'm not necessarily talking about handling a suspend or low-power mode. I'm talking about copying the memory to disk, then powering off. Then, upon power-on next time, reload the memory state, re-init peripherals and go!
I can't help feeling that it's a bit simplistic to just say "re-init peripherals" like that. Some peripherals can have quite a complex state associated with them, and just re-initialising them as though you were starting from power-up may not make the O/S happy when it finds itself back in control after the hibernation is over?
There has to be some O/S involvement in going into, and returning from, hibernation mode - the question for LinuxBIOS is "how much of a task is left over once you take out what the Linux kernel can already do for itself?"
Regards,
Antony.