[BUGS] hardware changing time .. moving forward

[Andrew Reilly]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:17:57PM +1100, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> 
> On 29/01/2008, at 2:08 PM, leon zadorin wrote:
> 
> > On Jan 26, 2008 2:21 PM, jonathan michaels <jlm at caamora.com.au> wrote:
> >> greetings all,
> >>
> >> i'm finally making a move in regards to teh hardware, so i have
> >> ben thinking about getting a laptop, though lately i cannot get
> >> past getting a toshiba but lately i have been thinking about
> >> getting an apple notebook, esp if there is one available with a
> >
> > my $.2 (may not apply no newer iBooks):
> > *) hardware - iBook G4
> > *) Currently running OpenBSD (before that - NetBSD and long ago Gentoo
> > and Ubuntu)
> > *) making the laptop go to sleep (e.g. zzz) is not possible or not as
> > simple as it sounds (due to differences in PC/Apple BIOS(less)ness) -
> > is this still the case btw with newer machines?
> 
> Apple PPC arch used OpenFirmware, however I believe the Intel Macs now  
> use EFI, neither of which are BIOS and both of which are better than  
> PC BIOS.. Since EFI is an Intel thing I imagine PC vendors will  
> eventually head in that direction as well, so support for it should be  
> fairly standard sooner or later.

I had hoped that it would be a bit sooner than it has been,
myself.  As far as I know, all of the Itanium systems out there
boot from EFI, rather than BIOS, and FreeBSD supports Itanium.
Those probably don't need to suspend, though...

-- 
Andrew