F7 redux, and the road to F8.

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 15:17 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> Suspend/Resume.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> We need a more focused testing effort here.
> (And an even more 'fixing' effort when problems are found).
> I fixed up 2-3 laptops in the last few weeks before release,
> but pretty much every review I've read of F7 so far has dinged
> us for this not working out the box. On common laptops like thinkpads
> too.  In part, this was us moving to new suspend infrastructure,
> so I'm hoping a lot of the 'black screen' bugs will just go away
> in a future hal-data/pm-utils update.  But we can definitly do
> better here.  Work is ongoing to get better debugging tools
> for resume failures too, more about that as it happens.

I've finally gotten a bit more up to speed in the last week - I'm now
tracking both the new kernel cvs tree and rawhide, so hopefully I'll be
more useful. I'm also working to make my one-day-a-week less
theoretical :).

The main hindrance I have in working on suspend bugs is access to
hardware. I realise that shipping laptops to Victoria, Australia
probably isn't the best option. Can we somehow set up good remote acesss
that could let me be more useful here?

We also have Hughsie (quirks expert!) on board at the moment as an
intern or such like. I'd love to see us snap him up on a more permanent
basis. It seems like just about all the power management guys end up at
Suse.

Regards,

Nigel