Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jun 2004 16:48:41 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: APM realy sucks on 2.6.x |
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Hi!
> >Yes, that's pretty much what I meant. ACPI has ~5 people actively > >working on it, some of them probably full-time. That's a lot of > >manpower, compared to APM. > > > This becomes a little bit scary. Someone else on this list already > mentioned that there is a strong movement towards everything which > is at least a desktop/server machine. And on the other hand there are > these embedded systems which seem to be attractive for linux to. > > ACPI seems to be nifty for such things like hardware monitoring and > stuff. That makes it interesting for servers etc... > > Everything in the middle (aka laptops) seems to slowly drop out of the > loop. PCMCIA seems to be another ugly example. Anyway ... I'm not > frightened
HP sells compaq nx5000 notebooks with Linux preloaded. Unfortunately suspend-to-RAM is not there (IIRC). That's because suspend-to-RAM is hard to do with ACPI.
PCMCIA... well, that's another obsolete technology. Too bad.
They are people who care about notebooks, there's just no one that cares about *old* notebooks any more. Pavel -- 934a471f20d6580d5aad759bf0d97ddc - 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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