Thanks for the feedback. For what its worth, with a good SSD, a server-laptop is nice and speedy when a reboot is needed. The workstations could benefit from suspend/resume, but its not deal breaker. Especially not with DF's NFS stack being as good as it is!
On 01/12/2015 02:59 AM, Justin Sherrill wrote: > Suspend and resume works generally well with OpenBSD and Thinkpads. > That's from what I've seen, not from what I've experienced. > > DragonFly has no suspend/resume support. The one thing that has been > worked on is C states, but that's only really helpful with servers. > Will any future work in FreeBSD be applicable? I don't know, but I > hope so. Funding some sort of cross-BSD work like that would be > interesting, as I always like the concept. Coordination would be hard > - harder than the code itself, I think. > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:42 AM, PeerCorps Trust Fund > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Two items. >> >> I know there have been some recent discussions in the lists about using >> Chromebooks with Dragaonfly. Thinkpads still seem to have better out of the >> box support from what we have seen on our end across all of the BSDs, >> including Dragonfly. >> >> One question that I had for those of you who are using mainly Thinkpad >> workstations, are there any models out there that have worked especially >> well for you? What I am referring to here is anything Haswell-based >> obviously and older, not anything ultra new. >> >> I ask this question for one main reason. Hopefully sometime this year, we >> may be in the position of testing various BSD's on a variety of laptops and >> documenting what works and what does not to fill in some of the gaps on the >> current BSD laptop pages out there. The focus for this testing will likely >> be limited to DragonflyBSD and FreeBSD for now. >> >> Also, there is a team over at FreeBSD working towards getting resume tuned >> and working more efficiently on laptops and I've noticed a lot of >> improvement in that area on FreeBSD 11.0-current. I wondered if those ACPI >> modifications at some level are portable to Dragonfly? OpenBSD's work seems >> to be very advanced in this area, but I've read that because those >> modifications also depend on their fork of Xorg/Xenocara, it is not trivial >> to port. >> >> Why is suspend/resume important? Well I am sure the road warriors out there >> have their own case scenarios. On our end we are actually setting up laptops >> as mini servers in classrooms. They work surprisingly well and are a very >> low cost way to share things across a network of portable systems. They are >> also wonderful in that they have "built-in" battery backups. As power cuts >> are common in our setting, this is quite a big deal. Having suspend/resume >> support means that when there is a power cut we can effectively suspend the >> servers for days at a time without shutting them off completely (as tested >> on OpenBSD). Once the power is back on, simply open the lids and everyone is >> back in business. >> >> I understand that working resume is a complex affair and there are bigger >> priorities across the board for everyone. Earlier last year we actually >> explored writing some kind of grant (we are a non-profit) to partner with a >> developer in the BSD community to see if getting resume might be something >> that could be done using external funding. Is there anything out there which >> might suggest whether this is a beneficial type of activity to explore? Or >> is it better to wait for things to progress more organically? >> >> Any thoughts on the above would certainly be appreciated. >> >> Mike @ PeerCorps Tanzania
