Subject: Re: laptop suspend with ACPI? Any equivalent to zzz?
To: Perry E.Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/18/2003 00:37:27
Perry E.Metzger wrote:
> Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net> writes:
> 
>>No, using ACPI you can't suspend. :(
>>Making it happen is a lot of work, since with ACPI the OS has to
>>do most of the work (unlike APM where BIOS does most).
> 
> 
> It isn't actually that bad. There are various different levels of ACPI
> suspend, and the lightest sleeps are very much like APM sleeps -- we
> could implement it very trivially, or, even better, we could just take
> the code from FreeBSD that handles all this.
Excellent!  When will you be done? ;-)

	-- Lennart