Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 12:56:31 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: Vishwanathan S V N <vishketan@yahoo.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A modern laptop on which suspend and resume works reliably? Message-ID: <482D685F.9050603@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1080516193705.12512B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1080516193705.12512B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
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Ian Smith schrieb: > > Just in time perhaps, suspend/resume not working on SMP machines being > an increasingly significant lack, patches arrived on acpi@ the other day > entitled 'SMP suspend/resume.' :) It's likely to take a fair while to > test and generalise it, but to quote the author, takawata@init-main.com: > > : Hi, I managed to make suspend and resume work on SMP system. > : The patch following is a bit crude patch, but it begin > : to work on my ThinkPad X61 (core2duo system). > : > : TODO: > > (plenty, but it's great to see a good start) > Good to see that. Kudos to the author who had the guts to tackle this obviously non-trivial project. > You mean a MacBook Running FreeBSD, or OSX? :) > > Well, I think you can run FreeBSD on MacBooks, too. But for all the functionality, OS X is better. I simply don't need a mobile computer beyond what my Lifebook provides, currently, or I'd have bought one already. And as I work with xterms mostly, FreeBSD is actually a bit faster than OSX in that department. Also, the Lifebook has serial-out, which is useful sometimes ;-) cheers, Rainer
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