Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:44:42 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org (Arun Sharma) Subject: Re: Fwd: Suggestion for laptop suspension Message-ID: <200008301544.e7UFigG06857@billy-club.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:35:12 %2B0930." <XFMail.000830173512.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <XFMail.000830173512.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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In message <XFMail.000830173512.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> "Daniel O'Connor" writes: : On 30-Aug-00 Warner Losh wrote: : > no. that's not how things work. suspend is in the bios and has no : > clue about what is or isn't used, so it always does the whole thing. : : Perhaps it does simple compression (eg RLE) and if your memory is zero'd to : begin with it would compress that very well.. You do not understand. The BIOS knows how much memory there is. The BIOS writes it to disk. The kernel gets what the BIOS gives it. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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