From: Benjamin H. <be...@ke...> - 2002-07-24 20:13:29
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>On x86, when you suspend to disk, the power is then physically removed >from the whole board - CPU and all. The resume event is a real reboot, >with a magic marker on-disk noticed by the BIOS. And the BIOS won't re-run the initialisation of the video chip by itself then ? pfff... >(suspend-to-ram is largely similar: the DRAM refresh continues, and parts >of the board have power, but "external" PCI devices generally do not. Yup, we do suspend to RAM as well here, though for most things (except those dawn desktops who unconditionally shut down all PCI), we have find control of power & clocks of various devices. The CPU itself is off obviously. Ben. |