On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Eric Saxe wrote:
> Ian Murdock wrote:
> >
> > The most obvious missing feature is suspend and resume. I've heard
> > there are people working on this.. What's the status of this work,
> > and is it something we'll be able to use in the October timeframe?
We have working prototypes, and are trying to work through the last
details (which do appear to be somewhat tricky and troublesome).
However, it's usability will be predominantly triggered by the
availability of framebuffer drivers that properly suspend and resume.
And at the current time, we have only had success with the RageXL
driver. The biggest problem here, is that not many (if any) laptops
use this chipset.
So for it to be useable in October, it will be important that we
start to have framebuffer driver writers working on implementing it
(we can provide prototypes of a s/r kernel that should be useful in
developing and testing these drivers). It will also be extremely
usefull to identify other drivers on laptops that might also need to
be updated to support suspend and resume (which, btw, is described in
chapter 12 of "Writing Device Drivers").
Cheers!
---- Randy
