Re: Netbooks good for FreeBSD?

Scott Lambert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:18:04PM +0900, Takashi Inoue wrote:
> I wonder why you choose FreeBSD because ATOM N270 has a
> Hyper-threading and hence support a parallel processing. However, on
> FreeBSD with SMP kernel, ACPI suspend/resume is not possible.  For
> netbook, suspend/resume shold be important.  Most of popular OS except
> for FreeBSD, support a suspend/resume with parallel processing,
> eg. Windows, Linux. I recomend you to reconsider.

Things may have changed since the last time you tried.

Suspend resume works fine on my 64bit, core2duo, Acer Travelmate,
FreeBSD 8 with a GENERIC kernel.  SMP is enabled.

The only thing that doesn't work well in my Acer is the iwn driver.

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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
[email protected]

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