[indiana-discuss] Tim's 0.02

[Alberto Ruiz]

2007/6/11, Dirk Wetter <dirk.wetter at drwetter.org>:
>
> 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.


Most likely the community.

Cheers,
>         Dirk
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Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz
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