Subject: Re: thinkpad: T60p vs Z61p... or macbook
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/07/2007 19:31:36
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I believe the problem is lack of good-enough ACPI support -- and T60s
> don't have APM. At least on my T42, I lose the USB ports if I do an
> ACPI "suspend" (it's not really called suspend, but you know that
> better than I do...).  On some machines, there's also trouble with the
> display, though I think that switching to a text console before
> suspending is a useful workaround.

One small correction -- the issue isn't with our ACPI support, it is a 
lack of proper power management within the USB HCD device drivers (and 
most other device drivers on NetBSD as well). The fact that suspend/resume 
works on some configurations is pretty much a fluke.

Cheers,
Jared