From: tyen@cs.utexas.edu (Anthony Yen) Subject: Linux on 386SL Under Hibernation? Date: 19 Jul 1992 13:22:44 GMT
Linux'rs:
Please forgive me if this is a FAQ (it's rolled off our system here
already, and my gopher search of news.answers didn't turn up
anything), and point me to the information if it's been asked before.
Does anyone know offhand if Linux can survive the hibernation mode
that many 386SL notebooks offer? When initiated, this mode dumps
memory to a hidden attribute disk file, then powers off the machine.
Furthermore, the mode appears to be BIOS-driven and tightly bound to
the DOS filesystem, which is why I'm wondering about this. I reached
this hypothesis after I determined that my Compaq LTE/Lite 25 requires
the following conditions for hibernation to be implemented:
- The boot partition must be >= 16 Mb
- The memory dump file must reside on the boot partition
- The boot partition must not be compressed (Stacker, etc.)
I have found that this feature works under DOS and DR-DOS, and have
not tried it out on anything else (don't have OS/2, etc). Should I be
looking for a chiphead instead, since it is conceivable that much of
the functionality of this mode resides on the SL chipset?
This question is more or less out of curiosity; if no one has
confirmed Linux's behavior for these types of machines, then I'll try
it out and report back to the group, although that may take some time
since it takes me 48 hours for a full dump/restore cycle of my DOS
files to my SPARCstation :-(.
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