In message <20011123051758.L17760@snark.ptc.spbu.ru>, "Valeriy E. Ushakov" writ
es:
>On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 18:44:05 -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
>> 1.  Anyone done this?

>NetBSD hybernates just fine on my Dell Latitude.

Argh.

>> 2.  Any obvious design flaws/gotchas?  (e.g., I can't do it naively on my
>> system, because the swap partition may get trashed while NetBSD is asleep.)
>> 3.  Is there some established protocol for writing code which says
>> "then replace the entire contents of memory with this stream, and
>> jump to a specific location"?

>But isn't laptop's bios supposed to handle it itself?

Not on this system, anyway.  Or, at least, it doesn't seem to; it seems to
hibernate to part of the Windows drive when you tell Windows to hibernate.
It might be that, if I repartitioned to have a special hibernation partition,
it'd do this automatically - unfortunately, I already have 4 FDISK partitions.
(Windows, weird boot diagnostics, NetBSD, and BSD/OS.)

>When you turn the power on, BIOS detects a hybernated netbsd in that
>special partition and restores it instead of booting.

In Windows, anyway, my system gets as far as displaying the splash screen
before realizing that it's got a saved state to restore.  Maybe this is just
a chintzy bios, or maybe it's the hibernation partition...

-s