Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:13:59 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6 features list update |
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Hi!
> I think the section entitled "Laptops" is overly optimistic. First, > as far as i know, suspend-to-disk has only this week been announced > (on this mailing list) for anything other than the i386 platform, and > even there, many laptops only marginally work with software suspend/ > suspend-to-disk. I really doubt that any file system utilizing USB or > ieee1394 is going to work reliably (if at all) with suspend for many > laptops in the near future. I think the 2.6.0 shakedown and the amount > of attention (or lack thereof) given to suspend-related bugs makes it > clear that suspend-to-disk/software suspend is still experimental in > this release. > > I sincerely hope that changes very soon and i will do what i can to > help. Meanwhile, please qualify that section to read: > > ... now supports full software-suspend-to-disk functionality on many > ------- > laptops for the Linux user on the go. > ------- [emphasis to show added text] > > It's definitely improved, but in many instances (especially where the > laptop manufacturer has not provided full hardware/BIOS documentation), > it does not work well and may be difficult to make reliable in the near > future.
swsusp is not limited to laptops, and no we do not much bios documentation. It also worked on x86-64 for half a year...
Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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