Arima has one Laptop with Nvidia CK804 chipset. That should be more easier, and I hope Arima could work it out to make it support LinuxBIOS.
YH On 9/2/06, Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFE+holXdVoV3jWIbQRArT1AJ9Z+BuLxfSqz1UsJ1Uh6vgQeJsxBQCfQVUH > xUcmYdBUYxjTjeFIQRLwboE= > =H1LG > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > linuxbios mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
