From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 15 05:34:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFD96106566C for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:34:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lambert@lambertfam.org) Received: from sysmon.tcworks.net (sysmon.tcworks.net [65.66.76.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8598FC08 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:34:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sysmon.tcworks.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sysmon.tcworks.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n9F5YjSH066082 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:34:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lambert@lambertfam.org) Received: (from lambert@localhost) by sysmon.tcworks.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id n9F5YikE066081 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:34:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lambert@lambertfam.org) X-Authentication-Warning: sysmon.tcworks.net: lambert set sender to lambert@lambertfam.org using -f Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:34:44 -0500 From: Scott Lambert To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091015053444.GA76271@sysmon.tcworks.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <4AD41FB8.2040309@rawbw.com> <4AD6946C.2070308@sophia.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AD6946C.2070308@sophia.ac.jp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Subject: Re: Netbooks good for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:34:48 -0000 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