My team, that does laptop engineering for OpenSolaris, is just talking today about moving our engineering dashboard outside onto opensolaris.org. We'd be happy to start a list that people could add to. However, I would if the proper place would be a new subsection of the HCL that the HCTS compatibility team maintains? We don't want to duplicate any work/data.
As far as 100% works, that will not be the goal. For example, we are not, anytime soon, going to crack the "Windows Modem" stuff. And it may be a while before Sun internal or the external community, finishes the bluetooth project, or improves the quality of the firewire stack. But we could indeed make a HCL list of systems that mostly work, with notes about little used or less important parts that are not supported. Opinions? Neal On 11/07/08 07:00, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20081107/90411f83/attachment.html>
