[indiana-discuss] Tim's 0.02

[Dirk Wetter]

Am 11.06.07 08:07, Alan Coopersmith schrieb:
> Tim Foster wrote:
>> Indiana isn't _just_ about packaging afaik, and while I agree with not
>> duplicating work, if there was a choice to include power management of
>> this sort in the distribution, that would get my vote.
> 
> The reason suspend-and-resume isn't in Solaris is not because no one has
> put it on a magical wish list, but because the team that's working on it
> is working to make it as safe and stable as possible on both single
> processor and multi-processor hardware.   (Of course, they're targeting
> Sun's Ultra 20 & 40 workstations first, since that's the hardware Sun
> sells and needs to have Energy Star certification for.   Once they
> integrate the framework and that set of drivers, others will be able
> to add the support to drivers for laptops and other systems.)

yeah, but the latter point, i.e. "laptops and other systems", is the real
pain, since there's more out there than U20s/U40s: In fact the variety of
hardware is what makes this a pain. NOt that I don't want to see this
properly working for OpenSolaris/Indiana/whatever, too, but as I said in a
previous e-mail, judging by the work which was spend into get suspend
properly working under Linux for the majority of systems, any flavor of
Solaris is *years away* from a working "ACPI suspend" on those "laptops
other and other systems".

If it's really intended to push OpenSolaris on Laptops, somebody -- most
likely Sun -- has to allocate more man power for this.


Cheers,
	Dirk



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