Hello! I'm not the guy you asked the question of, but perhaps I can help?
From what I recall from an earlier discussion, the average laptop contains
hardware other then just normal things found on the average desktop. There are controllers in use that are normally not documented for special features for example.
Take a look for example at the Linux kernel features for enabling the GPIO found on the VAIO from Sony, since the firm probably was reluctant to release information on it, it was sorted out by reverse engineering.
That's just one example. I would imagine that the others can bring up more items to this discussion. -- Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
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[mailto:linuxbios-
bounces+hansolofalcon=worldnet.att.net@linuxbios.org] On Behalf Of Jun Koi Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:41 PM To: Uwe Hermann Cc: linuxbios@linuxbios.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Will linuxBIOS Work on My Machine?
On 12/10/07, Uwe Hermann uwe@hermann-uwe.de wrote:
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:31:54PM -0800, Wakefield, John wrote:
I have an Acer 5102WLMi Notebook with Dual Core AMD TL50s, which are
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I'm afraid LinuxBIOS doesn't yet work on laptops, those are much harder to support than "normal" PCs for various reasons. It's on our TODO list
to
support laptops too sooner or later, but it's not a trivial task.
Uwe, could you elaborate a bit here? Why supporting laptops is technically much harder than desktop??
Many thanks, Jun
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