[BUGS] hardware changing time .. moving forward
Jerahmy Pocott
quakenet1 at optusnet.com.au
Tue Jan 29 22:10:26 EST 2008
On 29/01/2008, at 3:45 PM, Andrew Reilly wrote:
>
> 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...
Yep, all Itaniums use EFI..
FreeBSD has worked with EFI since it first came out in 2001..?
Suspend probably works on EFI systems, it's the ones with custom BIOS
that always caused problems in the past. I recall my thinkpad writing
crap all over my filesystems not so long ago.. Though I did get it to
work mostly eventually..
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