Comment by nixpulvis
7 years ago
Great points.
I'd expect those in charge of maintaining and actually implementing these things for customers would also be aware. Project MU seems like at least in many ways a step in the right direction from Microsoft.
OS drivers seems ideal as long as it's open source, otherwise I'd expect Linux (or other OSes) hardware support to suffer.
Also interestingly, on the topic of sleep state. I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (6th edition) and it's sleep was broken (and still partially broken) because Lenovo only implemented the new S0 low power idle "Modern Standby" (what a name!), without implementing the S3 mode as well. Sigh...
> I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (6th edition) and it's sleep was broken (and still
> partially broken) because Lenovo only implemented the new S0 low power idle "Modern
> Standby" (what a name!), without implementing the S3 mode as well.
Good news: please update your firmware, and you will gain the option to either use this new S0 mode (for Windows) or the S3 mode (for Linux) in the firmware. This is not perfect if you're dual booting, but if you're only running Linux it solves the issue.
Also, you can now update your firmware from Linux using fwupdmgr. Be aware there's a Lenovo bug if you're dual booting: you'll end directly on Windows after an update. So keep a Refind USB key around, use it to boot Linux, and reinstall EFI grub. If you're pure Linux, no such problem.