On 10/ 1/08 12:09 PM, 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? > > 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. >
Excellent point. Last week we were talking in the hallway that closer to the release of 2008.11, approx 5 of my staff will blog about how to test and enable suspend/resume on other laptops. Randy also did this on his blog, but if we add 5 or 6 more, google will find them more easily :-) > Cheers > > Andrew. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20081001/75f78730/attachment.html>
