Re: APM realy sucks on 2.6.x

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

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
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