Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:06:10 -0600 | From | "hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)" <> | Subject | Re: Flames over -- Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.) |
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Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2006, at 18:35, Pavel Machek wrote: > >> Anyway, it means that suspend is still quite a hot topic, and that is >> good. (Linus said that suspend-to-disk is basically for people that >> can't get suspend-to-RAM to work, and after I got suspend-to- RAM to >> work reliably here, I can see his point). > > > I completely agree. My Mac PowerBook has had suspend-to-RAM for a long > time; I shut the lid and about 3 seconds later it's asleep, open it and > 3 seconds later it's awake. Leave it sleeping for a week on a full > charge, come back to find it still asleep. I can even put it to sleep, > remove a drained battery and put in a fresh one (it has a small > internal 2-minute RAM battery), then wake it up and resume work. I'm > curious though, what proportion of laptop hardware actually has support > for suspend-to-RAM? (including hardware for which linux does not yet > have support).
I'd say about... 100% of all in use today :-) Really, I've not seen a machine without APM or ACPI in ages...
> What percent of that hardware _does_ have Linux support?
85% I'd say. My notebook supports suspend, but not stand by, in Linux. Suspend uses more battery. :-(
> > Cheers, > Kyle Moffett > > -- > If you don't believe that a case based on [nothing] could potentially > drag on in court for _years_, then you have no business playing with > the legal system at all. > -- Rob Landley > > > > - > 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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