Re: Hibernation considerations

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Monday, 16 July 2007 16:15, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> 
> > > As I understand it, running a different OS between the hibernate and 
> > > the resume would violate the ACPI spec.
> > 
> > Well then, I know one or two people who would argue that the ACPI spec is 
> > faulty. :\
> 
> It's hard to argue against that.  In fact there are people who would 
> argue that the ACPI spec is incomplete and inconsistent period, 
> regardless of any questions about what happens between hibernate and 
> resume.  :-)

That's true, but OTOH it's difficult to argue with my notebook's firmware
about that. ;-)

Greetings,
Rafael


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