Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net [060830 18:17]:
We face various constraints here:
- People are less likely to perform experiments with their newest machines
While we only care for exactly those because of the costs and time involved in supporting a system
That's the question. Do we want to continue supporting highly expensive boards like Tyan where hardly anyone will sacrifice a system to LinuxBIOS testing or do we want to reach the masses. For the masses, anything less than *perfect* support for the machine they use daily is unacceptable. And we will probably not reach good support of a board until long after the board is out of production, bringing us back to square one. Just look at how many people use binary-only drivers to get a bit more performance on their machines for daily use even if free drivers exist.
I'm for supporting slightly outdated systems (like AMD Socket 754/939) and against putting any effort into the latest and greatest.
- flashrom should work on the systems we are targeting to eliminate the need for an EEPROM programmer
- provide linuxbios-check .rpm/.deb/.tar.gz/ebuild with the following (half-)automated tests:
- sensors-detect for SuperIO detection
The SuperIO can also be auto detected. I think I saw the code for this somewhere.
You mean, a different method than probing SMBus?
Regards, Carl-Daniel