[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS on Laptops.

[yhlu]

Arima has one Laptop with Nvidia CK804 chipset. That should be more
easier, and I hope Arima could work it out to make it support
LinuxBIOS.

YH



On 9/2/06, Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 09:16:37PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > I'd say we postpone laptop support until we have LinuxBIOS running on
>
> Yeah, that's probably a good idea (for the FSF campaign text).
>
>
> > a few cheap mainboards because laptops present additional problems:
> > * usually the flash chip is not socketed
>
> Most probably, yes. Luckily I do have a working test-laptop which has
> the chip in a socket... More details in my other post...
>
>
> > * video bios is tightly integrated
> > * superios are different from what we know
>
> Do you have more details? As far as I can see at least some seem to be
> very similar to non-laptop superios. If there's a datasheet it shouldn't
> be too hard to support them.
>
>
> > * most of the time, embedded controllers have to be initialized as
> >   well if you don't want to kill the hardware
> > * wrong video initialization has the potential to kill the display
>
> Hm, that doesn't sound good. Which controllers in particular can become
> problem?
>
>
> > Stories about LinuxBIOS frying laptops are the worst we can get now,
>
> ACK.
>
>
> Uwe.
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