s2ram (Was: Re: Request for comments: Laptop improvements)

[Bill Nottingham]

Thorsten Leemhuis (fedora at leemhuis.info) said: 
> That's okay for me. Are there any efforts in that direction already?
> gnome-power-manager perhaps?
> 
> BTW, managing whitelists and "lists with required workarounds for
> certain laptops" really sounds like something to me that needs to be
> handled somewhere "upstream" -- otherwise each distro would have to
> manage its own lists and that wastes a lot of man-power without a real
> benefit afaics... 

There is pm-utils work going on to integrate these sorts of things
with HAL at freedesktop.org(?). I believe Richard Hughes has been leading
the work, with some help from Red Hat, Ubuntu, and SuSE people.

Bill