From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Aug 30 8:44:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE44E37B424 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:44:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from billy-club.village.org (billy-club.village.org [10.0.0.3]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA98295; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:44:33 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by billy-club.village.org (8.11.0/8.8.3) with ESMTP id e7UFigG06857; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:44:42 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008301544.e7UFigG06857@billy-club.village.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" Subject: Re: Fwd: Suggestion for laptop suspension Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org (Arun Sharma) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:35:12 +0930." References: Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:44:42 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message "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