From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 18 23:21:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.uni-bielefeld.de (mail2.uni-bielefeld.de [129.70.4.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D764237BC10; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 23:21:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bfischer@Techfak.uni-bielefeld.de) Received: from frolic.no-support.loc (ppp36-169.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de [129.70.36.169]) by mail.uni-bielefeld.de (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2000.05.17.04.13.p6) with ESMTP id <0FWE009EU1NWLU@mail.uni-bielefeld.de>; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 08:21:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from broccoli.no-support.loc (broccoli.no-support.loc [192.168.43.99]) by frolic.no-support.loc (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA00746; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:01:45 +0200 (CEST envelope-from bjoern@no-support.loc) Received: (from bjoern@localhost) by broccoli.no-support.loc (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA00647; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:01:44 +0200 (CEST envelope-from bjoern@no-support.loc) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:01:44 +0200 From: Bjoern Fischer Subject: Re: ACPI project progress report In-reply-to: <20000617135611E.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org>; from iwasaki@jp.freebsd.org on Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 01:56:11PM +0900 To: Mitsuru IWASAKI Cc: acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org, dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20000619070144.B554@broccoli.no-support.loc> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i References: <20000617002156A.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> <394AAE60.B6F0EE2A@newsguy.com> <394AB05C.569DD4DD@newsguy.com> <20000617135611E.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 01:56:11PM +0900, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: > I think OS-initiated S4 (hibernation) in FreeBSD has enough advantages > because we can do `Save-to-Disk' anywhere even on non-laptop machines > which BIOS doesn't support hibernation. > FreeBSD supports crash dump facility here, so I'm expecting that > `Save-to-Disk' by kernel would not be so difficult. We might need > dedicated swap partition for OS-initiated S4 because used swap areas > need to be protected for the system oprerations after awakening. > The boot loader is the best place for restoring the system context in > FreeBSD I think. Just a moment. You talk about doing a `Save-to-Disk' (incl. system halt), turning power off, maybe adding some hardware or moving the machine to another location, then switching on again, restoring the system context, and the machine will proceed as if nothing had happened, do you? Bj=F6rn --=20 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GCS d--(+) s++: a- C+++(-) UB++++OSI++++$ P+++(-) L---(++) !E W- N+ o>+ K- !w !O !M !V PS++ PE- PGP++ t+++ !5 X++ tv- b+++ D++ G e+ h-- y+=20 ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message