Fedora reawakens the hibernation debate [LWN.net]

Fedora reawakens the hibernation debate

Posted Sep 17, 2018 23:34 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Fedora reawakens the hibernation debate by ebassi
Parent article: Fedora reawakens the hibernation debate

Based on the combination of hardware, firmware version and kernel version?

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Fedora reawakens the hibernation debate

Posted Sep 18, 2018 10:25 UTC (Tue) by ebassi (subscriber, #54855) [Link] (2 responses)

I mean: if the kernel wants to detect that, since it has access to all those three items, then it's also fine by me.

It's unlikely that GNOME, or any other high level user space UI, would be able to access those three things without building a huge quirks database anyway, so might as well defer to components that already have that database.

Fedora reawakens the hibernation debate

Posted Sep 18, 2018 16:12 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

No component has the necessary information to determine that hibernation will work reliably.

Fedora reawakens the hibernation debate

Posted Sep 18, 2018 20:27 UTC (Tue) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link]

Great if there's some component on the system that can provide a best-guess as to whether it would work or not.

But, how about deferring to ME for the final decision, rather than some probably-out-of-date and not-quite-complete static database, regardless of where it lives?