Re: Hibernation considerations

Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-16T15:25:15Z

On Monday, 16 July 2007 16:15, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
>
> > > As I understand it, running a different OS between the hibernate and
> > > the resume would violate the ACPI spec.
> >
> > Well then, I know one or two people who would argue that the ACPI spec is
> > faulty. :\
>
> It's hard to argue against that. In fact there are people who would
> argue that the ACPI spec is incomplete and inconsistent period,
> regardless of any questions about what happens between hibernate and
> resume. :-)

That's true, but OTOH it's difficult to argue with my notebook's firmware
about that. ;-)

Greetings,
Rafael

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