[Linux-disciples] 2.6 suspend?

[Ken Shan]

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On 2003-10-08T10:37:40-0400, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> I can't answer the specifics, but ACPI is part of the BIOS; it's the
> newer replacement for APM that modern laptops use.  There is kernel
> support, but people grumble about it, since apparently it involves a
> fairly sizeable interpreter for the ACPI language.  And the support is
> still flakey.
>=20
> swsusp (software suspend), on the other hand, has nothing to do with the
> BIOS; the kernel just pages everything out to a special partition on the
> disk, arranges to load everything back when it reboots, and turns itself
> off.  It's reputed (by Adam, in particular) to be reliable in the 2.6
> series.  I don't know about the two forks, however.

APM suspend already works for me, currently, with the 2.4 kernels.
Can I somehow continue to use APM suspend with 2.6?  Is it just a matter
of including APM support in my kernel?  Can I have software suspend in
addition to APM suspend in the same kernel?

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