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From: "Ângelo Miguel Arrifano" <miknix@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-laptop] Add vista Hotstart Technology(TM) support on Gentoo.
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:48:10
Message-Id: 20071221034532.1ae40a60.miknix@gmail.com
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4 Hello everybody,
5
6 With the introduction of windows Vista, most of "Vista ready" laptops
7 comes with Vista Hotstart(TM) technology support.
8
9 You can read more about this:
10 http://www.vistabase.co.uk/kb/performance/what-is-windows-hotstart
11 http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/hotstart.mspx
12
13 Since Microsoft is making a lot of propaganda about this feature on Vista and
14 I own a HP dv6535ep laptop that supports it, I wrote a Linux driver and opened
15 a SF.net project to support these devices under linux.
16 The project is here: http://quickstart.sourceforge.net
17
18 With this driver and a simple init script its possible to launch applications
19 at boot time by pressing a hotkey while the laptop is either turned off
20 or in memory suspend.
21
22 With this email I'm proposing getting the driver into portage and creating a
23 Gentoo doc for this matter. I think people using Gentoo on Hotstart supported
24 devices could potentially benefit of this feature. Plus, the kernel driver is
25 very simple and looks stable in the last months.
26
27 Sincerely,
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29 Angelo Arrifano AKA MiKNiX
30 CSE Student at UBI, Portugal
31 Gentoo Linux AMD64 Arch Tester
32 miknix@×××××.com
33 http://miknix.homelinux.com
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Re: [gentoo-laptop] Add vista Hotstart Technology(TM) support on Gentoo. Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov@××××××.ru>