Re: OT: Mechanism of Laptop's Suspend to Disc.

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Ralph Corderoy wrote:

> I've a Sony Vaio laptop that boots Linux.  I can trigger its `Suspend
> to Disc' with a key combination and the current contents of RAM are
> saved to a special partition and the machine powers off.  On power on
> the machine notes that the partition isn't empty and restores the
> machine to its previous state.

> What do people think?  Would it be possible without BIOS intervention?

There's a patch for Linux 2.0 (and maybe 2.2) called swsusp,
which does something like this (saving memory to disk and
loading it in again on the next boot).

regards,

Rik
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