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 I'm for supporting slightly outdated systems (like AMD Socket 754/939) and against putting any effort into the latest and greatest.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 -- http://www.hailfinger.org/