Re: Announce: Software Suspend Core Patch 2.0 rc4.

[Nigel Cunningham]

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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