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From: Martin Hamilton <martin@net.lut.ac.uk>
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"Grover, Andrew" writes:

| (BTW, read the ACPI 2.0 spec - it's a lot better)

I'm getting there...  perhaps tomorrow :-))

| ACPI is meant to abstract the OS from all the "magic numbers". It's very
| possible to do things in a platform-specific way, but if you want to handle
| all platforms, you'd end up with something ACPI-like.

This isn't me talking, but I think you know the objection from
hardcore Linux folk is essentially that Linux is the only platform for
which platform-specific stuff should go into the Linux kernel.  I
don't really mind so long as suspend-to-disk and resume work... ;-)

| We're working on this. The major issue now is device power management. 

I was wondering whether the swsusp work might form a useful basis for 
the eventual ACPI implementation of the to-disk hibernation stuff:

  http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp.html

Am hoping this will resolve my immediate problem with the Vaio :-)

Cheers,

Martin




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