Robinson Tryon wrote: > On 9/18/07, Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Correct. No laptop whatsoever (except for the OLPC) is supported by >> LinuxBIOS at the moment. We definately like to change that, but at the >> moment there's no support at all. >> ... >> ... >> The last chipset which was added was the Intel 810. Supporting new >> chipsets is a _major_ piece of work, so don't expect this to happen >> every week or so... >> > > So Intel doesn't want to open up the specs on their hardware, whereas > AMD is willing to play ball (at least to some extent) ? > > Would writing to Intel (if only to be counted as one more data point) > help at all? > > I thought that Intel had a pretty good track record with the FOSS > community, what with their wireless cards and integrated graphics > cards having nice, open drivers... but perhaps it was all about the > money and they didn't actually care about maintaining a relationship > with the community at all...
Intel's datasheets are available freely online. I don't know if there's more info that they send to Award, etc, but the i440bx, i810, and now i830 ports were all written from those. It's the embedded controllers, which may/may not be Intel's design, that are the biggest discouragement for most people considering laptop ports. -Corey -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
