On Friday, 22 of February 2008, Mark Lord wrote:
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> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Friday, 22 of February 2008, Mark Lord wrote:
> >> david@lang.hm wrote:
> >> ..
> >>> I've been watching for kexec hibernate for a little while now, and the 
> >>> last I saw was that acpi was incompatible with the kexec hibernate (but 
> >>> the suspend folks were still claiming that devices needed to be put in 
> >>> the 'right mode' not just powered off. I've been waiting to see this 
> >>> resolved.
> >> ..
> >>
> >> Yeah, exactly.  What's so special about poweroff on hibernation?
> >> Why even bother with the special "S4" state there?
> > 
> > (1) To be able to wake up with the help of devices that can't wake
> >     the system up from S5 (power off)
> > (2) To handle some platform devices appropriately over the cycle
> ..
> 
> That's the theory.  I've read about it, but have yet to imagine
> any real-life situation where it applies.
> 
> But this isn't my speciality, so.. do you have experience with any real examples?

Yup.  The fan in my notebook behaves incorrectly after a resume from
hibernation if S5 is entered instead of S4 during it.

I don't know why exactly it happens, but that's how it goes.

Also, some machines are reported to behave incorrectly after a "shutdown"
mode hibernation, while the same machines work just fine after a "platform"
mode hibernation.  So at least for these machines it seems to matter.

Thanks,
Rafael
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