Hello, Since laptops are now outselling desktops (atleast in the US)[1], I think it is safe to say that good hibernation support is a valuable feature of a modern OS.
It seems to me that hibernation (aka, suspending to disk) is really just a specialized usage of orthogonal persistence. If that is true, then it seems like it might be worthwhile to fully exploit persistencce, since many of the hard parts have to be done to support hibernation anyway. One obvious difference is that orthogonal persistence needs to not interfere with normal operation of the machine whereas hibernation can take a few seconds to do its job. Just a thought... Jeremy Shaw [1] http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050606-4971.html _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
