[LinuxBIOS] Crazy idea? LinuxBios+Suspend 2

Ward Vandewege ward at gnu.org
Mon Dec 11 20:17:02 CET 2006


On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:59:26AM -0800, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> Is the suspend be the job of OS instead of firmware?

That's an interesting question. Proprietary BIOSes used to do suspend to disk
- I had a laptop 7 years ago that did it (HP Omnibook XE2). Every laptop I've
owned since then does not have a suspend feature.

Would having the BIOS do suspend require a BIOS callback? What was described
in this thread made it sound like a callback is necessary.

Thanks,
Ward.





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