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| author | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2007-05-08 13:37:51 +1000 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2007-05-08 13:37:51 +1000 |
| commit | 02bbc0f09c90cefdb2837605c96a66c5ce4ba2e1 (patch) | |
| tree | 04ef573cd4de095c500c9fc3477f4278c0b36300 /kernel/power/Kconfig | |
| parent | 7487a2245b8841c77ba9db406cf99a483b9334e9 (diff) | |
| parent | 5b94f675f57e4ff16c8fda09088d7480a84dcd91 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linux-2.6'
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/power/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/power/Kconfig | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/power/Kconfig b/kernel/power/Kconfig index 5001c652028..495b7d4dd33 100644 --- a/kernel/power/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/power/Kconfig @@ -78,17 +78,22 @@ config PM_SYSFS_DEPRECATED are likely to be bus or driver specific. config SOFTWARE_SUSPEND - bool "Software Suspend" + bool "Software Suspend (Hibernation)" depends on PM && SWAP && (((X86 || PPC64_SWSUSP) && (!SMP || SUSPEND_SMP)) || ((FRV || PPC32) && !SMP)) ---help--- - Enable the suspend to disk (STD) functionality. + Enable the suspend to disk (STD) functionality, which is usually + called "hibernation" in user interfaces. STD checkpoints the + system and powers it off; and restores that checkpoint on reboot. You can suspend your machine with 'echo disk > /sys/power/state'. Alternatively, you can use the additional userland tools available from <http://suspend.sf.net>. In principle it does not require ACPI or APM, although for example - ACPI will be used if available. + ACPI will be used for the final steps when it is available. One + of the reasons to use software suspend is that the firmware hooks + for suspend states like suspend-to-RAM (STR) often don't work very + well with Linux. It creates an image which is saved in your active swap. Upon the next boot, pass the 'resume=/dev/swappartition' argument to the kernel to |