Actually, 'Suspend to RAM / Flash' otherwise known as 'Instant On'
technology is an extremely valuable concept in PDA/PMP design that we
currently have in development.

Regards,

CLN

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Perry E. Metzger [mailto:perry@piermont.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:14 PM
> To: Manuel Bouyer
> Cc: Alexander V. Butenko; netbsd-users@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: SOC project idea
>
>
>
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> writes:
> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:05:02PM +0200, Alexander V. Butenko wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> It seems that only me is is missing suspend to ram function in netbsd.
> >> Now its implementation is far from ideal.
> >> Maybe its implementation can be improved during google summer of code?
> >
> > This is something quite complext and hightly hardware-dependant.
> > I don't think it's appropriate for SOC, especially because of the wide
> > range of hardware this needs to be tested on ...
>
> Suspend to ram is not particularly distinct from ACPI S3, and people
> are largely concerned about this on the x86 and amd64 platforms
> anyway, since most other machines aren't really in a position to do
> such things anyway.
>
> Perry
>
>