Re: Flames over -- Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel]Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.)

[hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)]

Kyle Moffett wrote:

> On Feb 10, 2006, at 18:35, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > Anyway, it means that suspend is still quite a hot topic, and that  is 
> > good. (Linus said that suspend-to-disk is basically for people  that 
> > can't get suspend-to-RAM to work, and after I got suspend-to- RAM to 
> > work reliably here, I can see his point).
>
>
> I completely agree.  My Mac PowerBook has had suspend-to-RAM for a  long 
> time; I shut the lid and about 3 seconds later it's asleep, open  it and 
> 3 seconds later it's awake.  Leave it sleeping for a week on a  full 
> charge, come back to find it still asleep.  I can even put it to  sleep, 
> remove a drained battery and put in a fresh one (it has a  small 
> internal 2-minute RAM battery), then wake it up and resume  work.  I'm 
> curious though, what proportion of laptop hardware  actually has support 
> for suspend-to-RAM?  (including hardware for  which linux does not yet 
> have support).  

I'd say about... 100% of all in use today :-) Really, I've not seen a 
machine without APM or ACPI in ages...

> What percent of that  hardware _does_ have Linux support?

85% I'd say. My notebook supports suspend, but not stand by, in Linux. 
Suspend uses more battery. :-(

> Cheers,
> Kyle Moffett
>
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