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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:40:12 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: Resuming from software suspend
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Hi!

> What I want to do is boot, do some things, and then resume the
> suspended state without rebooting between.  Is that possible?  I don't
> see any reason why it should be impossible to do, even if it's not
> currently supported.

Its not impossible, its just pretty tricky. You'd have to kill all
userland and bring devices back to sane state.
(It is also going to be very tricky to *test*.)
				Pavel
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