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From: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
To: "'Kai Germaschewski'" <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: "'Ducrot Bruno'" <poup@poupinou.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [PATCH] S4bios for 2.5.52.
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:24:23 -0800
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> From: Kai Germaschewski [mailto:kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de] 
> > I still am not clear on why we would want s4bios in 2.5.x, 
> since we have S4.
> > Like you said, S4bios is easier to implement, but since 
> Pavel has done much
> > of the heavy lifting required for S4 proper, I don't see the need.
> 
> Let me counter this, I have to admit that I didn't try the 
> patch yet, but
> my laptop does S4 BIOS, and I'd definitely prefer that to 
> swsusp, since
> it's much faster and also I somewhat have more faith into S4 BIOS than
> swsusp (as in: after resuming, it'll most likely either work 
> or crash, but
> not cause any weird kinds of corruption). Since it does not 
> need not much
> more to support it than S3, I don't see why you wouldn't want to give
> users the option?

Ok that's reasonable.

My belief is that S4bios is a stopgap measure until S4 gets better. That
said, I think you are right - it should go in for now, and then at some
point in the future someone will say, "S4bios?? who needs *that* anymore??"
and it will get pulled out. ;-)

So I'll look to merge it, unless someone upstream beats me to it.

Regards -- Andy
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