I’d say, anything to encourage people to try, use and join to develop [illumos] is very welcome. Better laptop support will definitely be bonus.
Sent from my iPhone > On 11 Jun 2019, at 22:58, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote: > > My gut instinct is that this isn’t that interesting – most everyone is > running illumos in either VMs, or in datacenter applications where > suspend/resume has little if any applicability. > > While the work itself is probably interesting, and it may enable new > applications for illumos, the concern I’d have would be detraction from other > more pressing work, without any clear use cases for it. > > That said, if someone (you?) wanted to spend cycles on this for personal > satisfaction, I hardly see any reason to discourage it, and I’m fairly > certain if the risks of the new code being introduced are small (or well > managed by sufficient testing for example), I can’t see any other reason we > would reject a suitably formed RTI. > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > From: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 11:10 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: [developer] suspend/resume in Illumos > > > > I have a question for developers here: > > How important is suspend/resume for OI/Illumos (including S4)? > > > One of the incomplete projects left behind was S4 (lack of need, and a > hard to identify bug stifled it's integration). It is non-trivial, and > needs updated s/r core code (added configuration and significant > restructuring, as well as likely assistance from developers knowlegable in > other Illumos internals), but if this is an uninteresting feature, it is > likey not worth the effort (recent bugs suggest that few if anyone use > it); however, it wouldn't be too hard to resurect (though would still take > several months of work). > > > Cheers! > > ---- Randy > > ------------------------------------------ > illumos: illumos-developer > Permalink: > https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/Tb3e65f5ac470e30c-M221586bbcf19e81e63ecf58f > Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription > > illumos / illumos-developer / see discussions + participants + delivery > options Permalink
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