2008/10/26 James Cornell <sparcdr at gmail.com>: > Matthew Gardiner wrote: >>> Functionally not much has changed for most cases, though a few Asus, >>> Acer, and Thinkpads are supported. CPU frequency changing (Dependent on >>> TSC existance, AMD Barcelona (Quad-core) or Merom (Dual-core) are the >>> baseline. It's not enabled from my experience on anything by default. >>> We're cutting energy use and leveraging solar so Solaris is out of the >>> question now due to lack of throttling on my Ultra 20. As for >>> suspend/resume, Ultra 20/40 and a good number of notebooks should work >>> granted they have recent BIOS firmware applied but this does still >>> require enabling manual settings. GNOME backends are primed for support >>> and will work if the changes to power.conf are made. >>> >> >> Hi, >> >> Is there an eta in terms of frequency scaling and so forth? my main >> concern is that I'd like to be able to get atleast 3hours out of my >> laptop :) >> >> Matthew >> > (Open)Solaris will not have CPU frequency support on anything less than > what I mentioned and for now is not going to be enabled by default > except on Sun blessed units. Suspend/Resume works on a good number, > granted you are using NVIDIA propetary drivers or generic drivers > (Intel, Radeon HD) for video. Getting 3 hours out is not going to > happen since TSC is needed to keep accurate time accounting on Solaris > as Solaris is a real-time supportive system on all configurations.
When you mean 'baseline', I assume you mean 'this is the oldest we support' - I've had a look at the hybrid and it is memron, however, the laptop (studio 15) has a newer cpu - would that be supported as well? Are we going to see TSC appear anytime soon? Matthew
