On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:02:45PM +0200, dou...@online.de wrote: > I appreciate the macppc port of OpenBSD. > > Why is there no suspend mode on laptops? > > 1) Not enough hardware documentation > 2) Developers/users don't care > 3) No human resources > 4) Something else (please specify)
A mix of 1, 2 and 3. > > What is the most likely way to get it? > > 1) Hardware donation > 2) $$$ donation (now much?) > 3) Some motivated guy without prior experience in kernel-land > implements it > 4) Something else (please specify) Probably 3, or 4) a guy with enough experience of macppc hardware and kernel suspend/resume framework implements it. Personnaly I lost interest on this topic. the batteries of my iBook are all too weak to continue using it in a way where suspend/resume would be useful. -- Matthieu Herrb
