andrew wrote:
>> 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?
>
In a word: Yes.
Toshiba has been active in working quite closely with our engineering
teams. The end result is that their products get higher priority in
getting support.
-- Garrett
> 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.
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