Any plans to add support for new features of laptops targeting Vista?

[Clive Menzies]

On (25/01/07 02:04), Miles Lane wrote:
> This article introduces a bunch of new laptop technologies that
> Microsoft is supporting in Vista.  According to the article,
> these technologies will result in shortened boot times, less
> power consumption in hard drives, the ability to have commonly
> used files stay resident in non-volatile memory for rapid program
> launches, etc.  These technologies all have a hardware component
> in addition to the software side.  My hope is that we can figure
> out how to have Linux benefit from these hardware changes.
> Power management on laptops remains an area where Linux
> is challenged, though it is improving.
> 
> Is there any hardware specs are out there for these
> new chunks of hardware?
> 
> Here's an article discussing the new gizmos:
> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/23/windows_vista_laptops/page3.html

Have a look at this article:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1992162566;fp;4;fpid;1968336438

Matthew Garrett is working on power managment issues; you may want to
contact him.

Regards

Clive

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