No subject

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 at worldnet.att.net
"The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linuxbios-bounces+hansolofalcon=3Dworldnet.att.net at linuxbios.org
[mailto:linuxbios-
> bounces+hansolofalcon=3Dworldnet.att.net at linuxbios.org] On Behalf Of =
Jun Koi
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:41 PM
> To: Uwe Hermann
> Cc: linuxbios at linuxbios.org
> Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Will linuxBIOS Work on My Machine?
>=20
> On 12/10/07, Uwe Hermann <uwe at 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
64
> >
> > 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.
> >
>=20
> Uwe, could you elaborate a bit here? Why supporting laptops is
> technically much harder than desktop??
>=20
> Many thanks,
> Jun
>=20
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