From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
Subject: Re: s4bios: does anyone use it?
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:01:13 +0100
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Brice Goglin wrote:

>  From what I remember, I didn't see any difference between S4 and S4B=
ios in
> recent vanilla kernels.

I have seen exactly the same thing and concluded that S4bios is broken.
Since it is tricky to set up (you usually need a special hibernation
partition or a special file in a FAT partition) and probably slow as
hell (at least if it has anything to do with the APM BIOS suspend to
disk routines, and i assume it does), i'd shed no tears if it would go
away ;-)
--=20
Stefan Seyfried, QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices, SUSE LINUX N=FCrnberg.

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"Well, surrounding them's out."