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by gmueckl 635 days ago
This may work on something with the complexity of a microcontroller or SoC, but becomes tricky beyond that. Any peripherals, especially removable ones would still need to be rediscovered and reinitialized on boot. Network connections may have died/reset while the system was off.

Essentially, this scheme has all the major complications of resuming from sleep/hibernation in practice.

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Because it is, for the most part, suspend to RAM aka S3.