From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270498AbTHQTJG (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:09:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270499AbTHQTJG (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:09:06 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:12231 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270498AbTHQTJD (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:09:03 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jan Rychter Subject: Re: Centrino support Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 12:58:42 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1060972810.29086.8.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> <1060980793.29086.21.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) X-Spammers-Please: blackholeme@rychter.com Cancel-Lock: sha1:/YMxU5rJ620Qavyofri0/gTAqzE= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >>>>> "Bryan" =3D=3D Bryan O'Sullivan : Bryan> On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 13:35, Jan Rychter wrote: >> I keep dreaming about the day when I'll be able to have a modern >> laptop with a stable Linux kernel. As for now, it has taken me (on >> one of my laptops) about 1.5 years to get to a point where 2.4 >> works, most of my hardware works, and software suspend (pretty much >> a requirement for laptops) works. I'm not about to give that up >> easily, so I'm not that eager to jump to 2.5/2.6. Bryan> Can't say that's been my experience. I bought a new Thinkpad Bryan> X31 the other day, and it's already running 2.6.0-test3. Bryan> Suspend works, all's happy. Lucky you! That's because almost two years (or so) of heavy work by many people went into this. Also, you're probably lucky with your Thinkpad. When I bought this laptop (a Sharp Mebius PC-MT1-H5) back in Sept 2001, there weren't many machines on the market that had only ACPI (and no APM). And Linux ACPI wasn't in a very sane state back then, not to mention swsusp. It took almost two years for the software to mature, and only recently did I get a stable machine that I can work on for a month without rebooting (suspending/resuming several times a day). I've just gotten a Centrino-based Toshiba Dynabook SS S7/290LNKW, and the story continues -- I've already hit at least two ACPI bugs, while swsusp problems seem to have been ironed out thanks to hard work by Nigel Cunningham. And of course, the built-in wireless card does not work. My guess is another 6 months (if not more) until Linux works on it. =2D-J. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/PozzLth4/7/QhDoRApuyAJ9mTmIuLVxoJQmL8QTCH2VfyMktegCgjq9i H1Lty3BVNqJBh460sP8kRfo= =CQQd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--