Quick status update. We received quite a few donations for this latest laptop run and thanks to your generosity we ordered a couple of laptops. The first one has already uncovered all kinds of AML nasties and the others that are on the way sure will have their gremlins too.
I'd like to extend my gratitude to all the folks that generously donated. These laptop runs are always very helpful in furthering our ACPI code base. A lot of folks will enjoy full suspend/resume in the upcoming 4.8 release and more is sure to come in the future. Thanks again! /marco PS: it is never too late to donate ;-) On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:52:35PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > I have got a few pledges for hp laptops. I have gotten good (as in bad) > test reports of the following models that fail one way or another: > * HP eb8730w > * HP nw9440 > * HP Mini 5102 > * HP 530 > > I think we have 2 major acpi issues with these. One of them looks like > an aml bug where we don't dereference an object deep enough and some > thermal zone issues. Unfortunately it seems that these are 2 distinct > issues and therefore potentially require 2 laptops to figure them out. > The laptops in question are relatively cheap on ebay so I think we can > make do with about $800USD worth for 2 machines. > > One of these machines fails to boot; different class of bug but very > interesting nonetheless to fix. > > I am 25% there with pledges. So if you are interested in getting these > 2 bugs fixed send me an email with the pledge amount. I won't accept > cash until we have enough to actually order machines. > > Oh and so that you know once these bugs are fixed we'll try to make > these laptops suspend and resume (an entire different beast!). And > after that the laptops will go to a developer who needs a laptop to work > on. > > Please contact me at ma...@openbsd.org and not on the list.
