Hello! I'm not the guy you asked the question of, but perhaps I can help? >From what I recall from an earlier discussion, the average laptop 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linuxbios- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jun Koi > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:41 PM > To: Uwe Hermann > Cc: linuxbios@linuxbios.org > Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Will linuxBIOS Work on My Machine? > > On 12/10/07, Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > > Uwe, could you elaborate a bit here? Why supporting laptops is > technically much harder than desktop?? > > Many thanks, > Jun > > -- > linuxbios mailing list > linuxbios@linuxbios.org > http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
