> 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.
Cool - I didn't realise there had been so much testing going on. I'm also rather pleased that my laptop is on the list! Was Toshiba one of the vendors that worked with you? Perhaps a note on how to test suspend/resume on other systems could be added to the 2008.11 release notes so you can gather more feedback on as many systems as possible? I suspect most people don't even now OpenSolaris has this facility and unless they ask about it in a forum or read about it somewhere they're not going to find out. Cheers Andrew. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
