Hi Uwe,
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:39:03PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
I've reworked the list of supported mainboards in the wiki quite a bit recently. The most notable change is that the boards are now sorted into categories.
http://linuxbios.org/Supported_Motherboards
For now we have these categories:
- Desktops / Workstations
- Servers
- Laptops
- Embedded / SBC / PC/104
- Mini-ITX
- Set-top-boxes / Thin clients
- Devel/Eval Boards
- Miscellaneous
Please have a look at all the mainbaords and let me know whether they're in the correct category, and/or if we need more categories etc.
This is great. Organizing the boards like that is very helpful I think, particularly for new users.
(the distinction between "desktop" and "server" is often quite subjective, thus I used whatever the vendor used; if the board is marked as "server solution" or such it goes into the server categrory)
Yeah - I guess that distinction is debatable for some of these boards. But as a criterion that's a pretty good choice.
Please also check the "Status" fields, some are still marked "?" and we should mark them either as "OK" or "Broken/WIP"...
I have a more general question about the status field. When do we consider a board 'OK' (motherboard is fully supported)? For instance; the Tyan S2881 and S2882 are listed as 'OK' even though there is no ACPI support, which means that fan control doesn't work (at least last time I checked).
Thanks, Ward.