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+config PM
+ bool "Power Management support"
+ ---help---
+ "Power Management" means that parts of your computer are shut
+ off or put into a power conserving "sleep" mode if they are not
+ being used. There are two competing standards for doing this: APM
+ and ACPI. If you want to use either one, say Y here and then also
+ to the requisite support below.
+
+ Power Management is most important for battery powered laptop
+ computers; if you have a laptop, check out the Linux Laptop home
+ page on the WWW at
+ <http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/> and the
+ Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from
+ <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
+
+ Note that, even if you say N here, Linux on the x86 architecture
+ will issue the hlt instruction if nothing is to be done, thereby
+ sending the processor to sleep and saving power.
+
+config SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
+ bool "Software Suspend (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PM && SWAP
+ ---help---
+ Enable the possibilty of suspendig machine. It doesn't need APM.
+ You may suspend your machine by 'swsusp' or 'shutdown -z <time>'
+ (patch for sysvinit needed).
+
+ It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps. By the next
+ booting the, pass 'resume=/dev/swappartition' and kernel will
+ detect the saved image, restore the memory from
+ it and then it continues to run as before you've suspended.
+ If you don't want the previous state to continue use the 'noresume'
+ kernel option. However note that your partitions will be fsck'd and
+ you must re-mkswap your swap partitions. It does not work with swap
+ files.
+
+ Right now you may boot without resuming and then later resume but
+ in meantime you cannot use those swap partitions/files which were
+ involved in suspending. Also in this case there is a risk that buffers
+ on disk won't match with saved ones.
+
+ For more information take a look at Documentation/swsusp.txt.
+
+config PM_DISK
+ bool "Suspend-to-Disk Support"
+ depends on PM && SWAP
+ ---help---
+ Suspend-to-disk is a power management state in which the contents
+ of memory are stored on disk and the entire system is shut down or
+ put into a low-power state (e.g. ACPI S4). When the computer is
+ turned back on, the stored image is loaded from disk and execution
+ resumes from where it left off before suspending.
+
+ This config option enables the core infrastructure necessary to
+ perform the suspend and resume transition.
+
+ Currently, this suspend-to-disk implementation is based on a forked
+ version of the swsusp code base. As such, it's still experimental,
+ and still relies on CONFIG_SWAP.
+
+ More information can be found in Documentation/power/.
+
+ If unsure, Say N.