On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:54:20AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 04:16:32AM -0400, Robinson Tryon wrote:
It's great to hear that AMD is so supportive of this project.
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laptop
This was discussed on IRC shortly after Mark's post. For now, the
Which post? URL?
graphics hardware simply isn't there to serve this market.
LB can run the binary VGA BIOS in the emulator for init but for operation going through legacy drivers/APIs is not the right way.
Sure, it's not ideal, but as a temporary "hack" until we have something better -- why not?
Maybe a totally-free-laptop-from-scratch won't happen very soon, but an existing laptop with supported chipset, superio, EC and socketed ROM would be a (relatively) easy target to at least support _some_ laptop at all...
Personally, I would be really happy to see something like this happen.
Uwe.