On 25 Jan 2006 03:24:11 -0500, Nathan J. Williams
<nathanw@wasabisystems.com> wrote:

> useful, because what's really missing is saving the state of a lot of
> hardware devices that lose all their state when put to
> sleep. Basically, what is needed is for ~every driver on a macppc
> laptop to get power hooks, and then for someone to test that our power
> hook infrastructure is actually sufficent. This is an uphill task,
> because we don't do it on other platforms, either; the APM sleep on
> x86 boxes takes care of the relevant state management.

Would there be other platforms/ports which might benefit from
exercising the power hook infrastructure ? Or is the macppc platform
an exception ?

If there are a good number of other ports which would benefit, IMHO it
might be a worthy exercise, at least for a subset of drivers.

--
~Cherry