Laptop designs route lots of signals through microcontrollers that do combined things such as keyboard scan, Flash write enable, battery management, power management, lid open/close, power buttons etc.
These are the areas that we would need documentation for.
The chipset docs may all be available but not docs to the power management/keyboard scan controller firmware. Their settings are typically virtual registers in firmware. The docs for the micros describe the general purpose micro itself, but that won't tell you how they are using all its gpio pins and ports.
-Bari
Justin Rietz wrote:
Is there a detailed list of what the LinuxBios project would require from a laptop manufacturer?
-Justin
--- "Ronald G. Minnich" rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Justin Rietz wrote:
I have been following/searching this mailing list,
and
haven't been able to find whether or not there has
/
will be a successful attempt at linuxbios on a
laptop.
we need a cooperative company. IBM *almost* was one, but it did not work out. I tried linspire, and there was interest, but not at the high levels.
It's hard.
ron
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