Gary Brett wrote:
> I am in the fortunate position where I am basing my choice of laptop solely
> around its opensolaris compatibility. But I am struggling to find a list of
> notebooks that are 'fully' compatible ?
>
> When I mean fully compatible, I dont just mean sound, video, NIC drivers etc,
> but i mean all things like bluetooth, wi-fi, power management, memory card
> slots, screen dimming functionality, suspend/resume. function keys etc
>
>
> Does such a list exist ?
>
I don't think so. I will say this, your best bet for most complete
functionality is a Toshiba Tecra -- that's because we (laptop
engineering, the group I'm part of) are targetting those specifically.
A few parts on these (or any!) laptops may *never* get OpenSolaris
support. For example, xD card slots require specifications that
Fujitsui doesn't make available (to my knowledge there is not even a
Linux driver). The memstick slots require NDA licensing materials from
Sony, and we've not pursued that yet either (and it isn't clear we
will.) SDcard (and MultiMediaCard) are well supported on some laptops.
Amongst them the Tecras.
Other devices are not *well* supported by any laptop in OpenSolaris
yet. The fingerprint readers and bluetooth are examples of things that
are in development, but don't yet work well for most people.
Apart from the above noted exceptions, everything else seems to work
reasonably well on my Toshiba Tecra M9. You have to have the latest
bits though, if you want suspend/resume, or hotkey support.
-- Garrett
