<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I’d say, anything to encourage people to try, use and join to develop [illumos] is very welcome. Better laptop support will definitely be bonus.<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 11 Jun 2019, at 22:58, Garrett D'Amore <<a href="mailto:garrett@damore.org">garrett@damore.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"><meta content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)" name="Generator"><style><!--
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">My gut instinct is that this isn’t that interesting – most everyone is running illumos in either VMs, or in datacenter applications where suspend/resume has little if any applicability.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">While the work itself is probably interesting, and it may enable new applications for illumos, the concern I’d have would be detraction from other more pressing work, without any clear use cases for it.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">That said, if someone (you?) wanted to spend cycles on this for personal satisfaction, I hardly see any reason to discourage it, and I’m fairly certain if the risks of the new code being introduced are small (or well managed by sufficient testing for example), I can’t see any other reason we would reject a suitably formed RTI.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:randyf@sibernet.com">randyf@sibernet.com</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, June 11, 2019 11:10 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org">oi-dev@openindiana.org</a>; <a href="mailto:developer@lists.illumos.org">developer@lists.illumos.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[developer] suspend/resume in Illumos</p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have a question for developers here:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> How important is suspend/resume for OI/Illumos (including S4)?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">One of the incomplete projects left behind was S4 (lack of need, and a </p><p class="MsoNormal">hard to identify bug stifled it's integration). It is non-trivial, and </p><p class="MsoNormal">needs updated s/r core code (added configuration and significant </p><p class="MsoNormal">restructuring, as well as likely assistance from developers knowlegable in </p><p class="MsoNormal">other Illumos internals), but if this is an uninteresting feature, it is </p><p class="MsoNormal">likey not worth the effort (recent bugs suggest that few if anyone use </p><p class="MsoNormal">it); however, it wouldn't be too hard to resurect (though would still take </p><p class="MsoNormal">several months of work).</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Cheers!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> ---- Randy</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">------------------------------------------</p><p class="MsoNormal">illumos: illumos-developer</p><p class="MsoNormal">Permalink: <a href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/Tb3e65f5ac470e30c-M221586bbcf19e81e63ecf58f">https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/Tb3e65f5ac470e30c-M221586bbcf19e81e63ecf58f</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">Delivery options: <a href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription">https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="topicbox-footer" style="margin:10px 0 0;border-top:1px solid #ddd;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,.15);padding:7px 0;">
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