sleep / wake-up

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Jon Scully wrote:

> Also, here's an article (just about 4 days old):
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/24/1716222
> (I thought the subject sounded familiar ;-)

Ok, thanks for both replies. That's a good start already! But this is all 
about __software__ suspend. But aren't some other "hardware" suspend-modes 
also available on ppc, like suspend-to-RAM? For example, on my system I 
could say quite a bit of power by stopping the HD, switching off 
USB-ports, eth, and then putting the CPU to sleep? Would all this be 
doable by just performing those steps and then clocking the CPU down?

I must admit, I don't understand the whole idea behind suspending at all. 
What happens to all applications that went to sleep for 1 second and wake 
up 2 days later? What about all network connections? timeouts? I have to 
read some basics...

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski