On 10/ 1/08 10:30 AM, andrew wrote:
> OK, thanks for the info. I've added this information to a new page on my 
> little OpenSolaris site:
>
> http://sites.google.com/site/solarium/tips/suspend-resume-support
>
> How was the list of systems to enable it on arrived at?
>   

We can only enable-by-default by listing specific models in
the "white list" file ppm.conf.
In order to do that, all the device drivers, bios, acpi, etc of
the specific laptop had to be working and not crash on resume.
Suspend is easy, it's coming back alive that is tough :-)
We also had a VERY small team of people and little time to
test all these fixes.  That translated into a small group of machines
for the first cycle of getting this all to work.

Most of the machines listed happen to be from vendors that are
working directly with us for technical, engineering, and
bios collaboration.   A few of the others just happened to
be in our lab testing pool.

There was such a huge amount of work to do for the foundation
and generic bits of suspend-to-ram  to get that stable by build
100 of Nevada, we could only fit in a small number of laptops
for the first start.   I expect that after release of 2008.11 OpenSolaris,
when we get community feedback, informal testing reports, and more
bug fixes done, we should be able to really expand that list.

Cheers,

Neal

> Thanks
>
> Andrew.
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