[ltp] Re: How to turn your T42p into a brick with ACPI...

[Eben King]

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, David A. Desrosiers wrote:

> 
> > Resuming from swsusp is nothing but a regular cold boot plus 
> > restoring the previously saved system state. It's not a BIOS or 
> > hardware feature, it's handled completely by software.
> 
> 	Ok, then this rules swsusp out, I can't use it. I'd rather 
> just cold boot if its going to take just as long as resuming from 
> suspend.

It doesn't.  Both involve loading the kernel from disk and booting it, but 
for swsusp you don't have to to go through the init scripts plus maybe X 
plus maybe KDE or Gnome plus relaunching all your applications plus resuming 
what you were doing before you shut down.

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