Stefan Reinauer wrote:
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Hi,
since we're aiming for broader coverage in LinuxBIOS and related tools, I think we should publish a "Call for Action" which urges interested people to give us dumps of their board configuration etc.
We had such calls before, and people would send in their board information, assuming that this would be enough for us to support their hardware. Unfortunately not a single new port resulted from this, though many people participated and lots of (unaccomplished) expectations were created. So I carefully wonder what the real goal of such a call would be, except gathering random people with random boards?
Well, that's how I found this place, and that resulted in one port (so far) :) But I can very clearly see your point.
Something like: We have 10 people who are willing to work on this or that mainboard if you get them a system they can keep for doing the work, given that the northbridge and southbridge are already supported... Other ideas?
Stefan
This is a very interesting idea. Once I can get my ******* laptop fixed and wrap up the cn700 board, I'd love to do a port for Via's new pico-itx board, but I have no real incentive (or money) to purchase the hardware. Yes it's an unsupported chipset, but it should be similar enough to the cn700 that I should be able to work with it.
-Corey