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Date:      Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:34:44 -0500
From:      Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netbooks good for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20091015053444.GA76271@sysmon.tcworks.net>
In-Reply-To: <4AD6946C.2070308@sophia.ac.jp>
References:  <4AD41FB8.2040309@rawbw.com> <4AD6946C.2070308@sophia.ac.jp>

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On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:18:04PM +0900, Takashi Inoue wrote:
> I wonder why you choose FreeBSD because ATOM N270 has a
> Hyper-threading and hence support a parallel processing. However, on
> FreeBSD with SMP kernel, ACPI suspend/resume is not possible.  For
> netbook, suspend/resume shold be important.  Most of popular OS except
> for FreeBSD, support a suspend/resume with parallel processing,
> eg. Windows, Linux. I recomend you to reconsider.

Things may have changed since the last time you tried.

Suspend resume works fine on my 64bit, core2duo, Acer Travelmate,
FreeBSD 8 with a GENERIC kernel.  SMP is enabled.

The only thing that doesn't work well in my Acer is the iwn driver.

-- 
Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert@lambertfam.org




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