On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Ian Murdock wrote:
> So, Randy, it's to you: If we can come up with a list of the models we
> need to support by October and make sure you have the necessary access
> to them for development and testing, how many could we have "supported"?
The problems are predominantly framebuffers, and to some extent the
lack of hardware/bios's to POR them on resume from S3. It has taken
us a while to get information from the two big veendors such that we
might actually have a chance in getting drivers that will resume (the
suspend part, is very easy, getting it to resume properly is the
pain). And at this point, we are still having problems with what we
have.
IMHO, to get a decent spectrum of support, it is important that
vendors (laptop and graphics chips) and Sun make this task a high
priority and allocate (or divert) resources to this task. Without
serious vendor support we won't get the information needed. And
without Sun support, we won't get desired resources
---- Randy
>
> Marketing folks: We need to come up with a prioritized list of the
> "most popular" laptop models out there. And we need to take into
> account that most popular may vary in different parts of the world.
>
> -ian
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> Ian Murdock
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>
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