Subject: Re: *_TINY kernels
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.org>
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/29/2007 01:27:01
On Apr 6, 10:24am, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
} 
} I had to switch to a Thinkpad A21 which is certainly Win98 class. Why?
} Because the mainboard in my normal Thinkpad died during pkgsrcCon. The
} only major hassle was the limited amount of memory. Heck, even ACPI S3
} worked. It seems like I have to change the CMOS battery now, otherwise

     Even my Thinkpad 380Z did ACPI S3 on the jmcneill-pm branch last
time I tested it.  It has a 300 MHz PII, so it is a rather old machine.

} it is working fine. Note that I wouldn't dare to run GENERIC on that
} machine, but I need a lot more hardware support than what is given by
} TINY.

     I have 96 MB of RAM in it, so I can run GENERIC if I want.

}-- End of excerpt from Joerg Sonnenberger