Re: Flames over -- Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.)

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> >Anyway, it means that suspend is still quite a hot topic, and that  
> >is good. (Linus said that suspend-to-disk is basically for people  
> >that can't get suspend-to-RAM to work, and after I got suspend-to- 
> >RAM to work reliably here, I can see his point).
> 
> I completely agree.  My Mac PowerBook has had suspend-to-RAM for a  
> long time; I shut the lid and about 3 seconds later it's asleep, open 
> it and 3 seconds later it's awake.  Leave it sleeping for a week on a 
> full charge, come back to find it still asleep.  I can even put it to 
> sleep, remove a drained battery and put in a fresh one (it has a  
> small internal 2-minute RAM battery), then wake it up and resume  
> work.  I'm curious though, what proportion of laptop hardware  
> actually has support for suspend-to-RAM?  (including hardware for  
> which linux does not yet have support).  What percent of that  
> hardware _does_ have Linux support?

99%+ of notebooks can do s-t-ram, and perhaps 50% desktops.
Linux should work on 70% or so...
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