Re: [ACPI] S4bios support

[Bjorn W. <bjo...@ax...>]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Nils Faerber wrote:
> > May I ask what s4bios does compared to "just s4" ? Does the kernel
> > still dump its core to swap or what happens ?
> 
> S4BIOS toggles the BIOS implementation of suspend-to-disk without OS
> interaction.

I guessed that but how does the BIOS know where to suspend on the disk ? 
Does the kernel tell it by giving the block ranges for the swap partition or 
do you need to repartition the harddisk to contain some magic partitions ?

/Bjorn