Re: A kexec approach to hibernation

[Xavier Bestel]

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 11:34 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:15:41AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > FWIW, on my old laptop apm beats any kernel solution hands down in terms
> > of speed
> 
> This might be true on 64MB systems. It is surely not true on multi-Gigabyte-
> RAM setups. At least not if you actually use that memory for anything
> including filesystem cache.
> And you simply cannot buy a new machine today that still supports APM suspend
> to disk.

I don't contest that. I just say that technically, an "external kernel"
can suspend/hibernate a laptop very well.

	Xav


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