IBM ThinkPad T42 ACPI suspend woes

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 07:50:35PM -0400, Bryan Pizzuti wrote:

>  Well, Ubuntu has pre-built kernels for i686, K7 and i386, while the Debian
> tree also has them optimized for K6, AMD64, Xeon, Itanium, and McKinley,
> just out of the x86-compatible architectures.

This is not quite accurate.

For the i386 architecture, Ubuntu provides 386, 686, 686-smp, k7 and k7-smp.
Debian's i386 kernel provides exactly the same options.

For the amd64 architecture, Ubuntu provides amd64-generic, amd64-xeon,
amd64-k8 and amd64-k8-smp.  Debian's amd64 port is not yet official, but the
kernel in the working tree provides exactly the same options.

Itanium and McKinley are variants of the IA64 architecture.  Debian has an
official IA64 port, while Ubuntu has a port in progress (hi, T-Bone).

> Would a prebuilt Centrino
> kernel package be reasonable also? If not in supported Ubuntu than maybe
> contributed to Debian, so it would be part of Ubuntu Universe?  

Centrino is a brand name which means:

- Intel Pentium M processor
- Intel Wireless

The -686 kernel is well suited for the Pentium M processor.

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 - mdz