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From: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>
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Subject: Re: Software suspend on FreeBSD
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On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 07:25:31PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> Earlier in the linear time track, on approximately Fri, Sep 09,
> 2005 at 23:01 , freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org divulged this
> public information:
> 
> 
> > From: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>
> > Subject: Re: Software suspend on FBSD.
> > To: Pranav Peshwe <pranavpeshwe@gmail.com>
> > Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
> > Message-ID: <20050909144409.GG23635@poupinou.org>
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> 
> > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 07:52:46PM +0530, Pranav Peshwe wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >           Does FreeBSD have 'software suspend' like linux ? or 
> > > maybe something similar...
> 
> > No.
> 
> Yes.  It depends upon which shell you are using.  For shells
> that support it you just suspend it with control-Z.
> 
> A restart is issued with 'fg' - foreground.
> 
> Unless of course the OP means something entirely different.

Unless I mistaken of course, the question of the OP is:
does FreeBSD support "software suspend" as for Linux, and this
means for me: "does FreeBSD support a generic mechanism in
under to suspend to disk without support from BIOS (or with very
minimal help from the BIOS)".

The answer to this question is no.

Of course FreeBSD support suspend to disk via APM or via ACPI S4bios,
but this is another story.

Cheers,
-- 
Bruno Ducrot

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.