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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: John Mock <kd6pag@qsl.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6 features list update
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:13:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031030081359.GA297@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ADzPx-0002Hl-00@penngrove.fdns.net>

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?]

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-30  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-27  4:55 Linux 2.6 features list update John Mock
2003-10-27  5:17 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-10-30  8:13 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-26 19:34 Joe Pranevich
2003-10-27 12:18 ` Erik Hensema

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