On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:10:05 -0400 Daniel Clark <dcl...@pobox.com> wrote:
Hi danny, (trimmed a bunch of ccs out) > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Karl Goetz <k...@kgoetz.id.au> wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 23:19:54 -0400 > > Daniel Clark <dcl...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > > > FYI no code yet, but promises that may help the effort to get > > > OpenEC working on Lemote Yeeloong... > > > > Interesting news. > > > > > The exception is because EnE has not released the low-level > > > details on the PS/2 interface in the KB3930, so there will be > > > some code that is > > > > Does anyone know what functionality is lost by this code being > > proprietary? (if we removed it). > > kk > > > > > not available -- relative to the codebase this is a very small > > > amount of code. The GPL licensing exception will allow for > > > linking against this closed code. We're going to investigate > > > ways to move away from this code in the future. (As far as we're > > > aware, this will make the XO-1.75 the first laptop with open > > > embedded controller code!) > > > > Sending to a lot of lists with people who might be interested, but for > replies I'd suggest signing up for and then replying only to the > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/openec list, which is very > low-volume. Archives at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/openec/ Thanks for the update! > FYI actual location of the code and some other interesting info. I'll > also go update http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OpenEC with this location as > the location currently mentioned has really old code (2009). > > Perhaps this will also be helpful with OpenEC on Lemote Yeeloong work > (FSF donated a few Yeeloongs to people who wanted to work on that a > while ago, but as far as I know there has not been a lot of progress > there.) Is there a specific project for that? I'd be interested to see how its going. (Although a bit scared to do the firmware flashing). kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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