Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Suspend to RAM currently appears to be something that the OS cannot do alone. At least because cpu wakeup has to go through the BIOS. Beyond that I think you are likely to get a lot more users and a lot more debugging and testing if you put the work in the OS. Eric -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
