Re: Suspend to Disk - Intel Architecture

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:19:10 +0200


Hi!

> For purposes of both learning more about the Intel architecture and
> the Linux kernel, and doing something useful for my Toshiba 410CDT
> laptop, I am attempting to write some simple(I hope) suspend to disk
> code for Linux. I remember seeing a similar thread discussed a while
> ago, but I plan on using a different method. I am taking the approach
> of dumping an entire snapshot of memory to a partition, and then when
> I get that working, a file.

This is what snapshot does, with exceptions:

it dumps to swap partition

it does not dump unused memory.

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