Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 14th Jul 2007 19:38 UTC, submitted by mark
"Major Linux distributors have been shipping ACPI in Linux for several years, yet mis-perceptions about ACPI persist in the Linux community. This paper addresses the most common myths about ACPI in Linux [.pdf]." In addition, there are proposals to utilise kexec-based hibernation in Linux.
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Member since:2005-11-11
The only thing is that even nowadays, the failures and successes are pretty much isolated cases, and the proper functioning of ACPI is still a roulette.
But, it's not to be blamed on the OS exclusively and the situation is much better now.
About the article, nice read, there were a few bits in there that I didn't know about.
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2006-02-05
I have had bad experiences in the past, but nowadays I can suspend/resume in linux with no problems at all (HP Pavilion dv9000/Feisty) I have done it several hundred times at this point, and it only messed up once.