Hi, On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 09:16:37PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > I'd say we postpone laptop support until we have LinuxBIOS running on
Yeah, that's probably a good idea (for the FSF campaign text). > a few cheap mainboards because laptops present additional problems: > * usually the flash chip is not socketed Most probably, yes. Luckily I do have a working test-laptop which has the chip in a socket... More details in my other post... > * video bios is tightly integrated > * superios are different from what we know Do you have more details? As far as I can see at least some seem to be very similar to non-laptop superios. If there's a datasheet it shouldn't be too hard to support them. > * most of the time, embedded controllers have to be initialized as > well if you don't want to kill the hardware > * wrong video initialization has the potential to kill the display Hm, that doesn't sound good. Which controllers in particular can become problem? > Stories about LinuxBIOS frying laptops are the worst we can get now, ACK. Uwe. -- Uwe Hermann http://www.hermann-uwe.de http://www.it-services-uh.de | http://www.crazy-hacks.org http://www.holsham-traders.de | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
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