On Mon, Jun 30, 2025, at 1:27 AM, Jason wrote: > its a 2008 core 2 duo laptop
Erk! The PCs I keep for testing/running/playing with miscellaneous OSs are all 2007-2010 core 2 duo laptops. Granted, they are getting a bit long in the tooth now, and I just realised the oldest of them is emitting some pretty nasty chemicals. (I've been trying to eliminate those; they used to permeate my entire life and affected who and what I am.) If I keep some of them, I guess I wouldn't really need to run acpipci on them. Anyway, what I've seen of OpenBSD in the past is that hardware is supported if someone is willing and able to maintain support. (But not some esoteric or extremely old hardware which lacks certain security features.) In another OS, I've known a dev who was willing to maintain support for hardware he didn't own so long as there was someone who could test -- simply and clearly explaining symptoms, following instructions, and running test binaries. I get mixed up far too much for all that, but there was this one guy who could do all that although he could hardly write code at all.
