Little status update. We got one laptop ordered (thanks everyone!) and are a few hundred short of the next. So if you care about these bugs please pony up ;-)
/marco On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:52:35PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > I have got a few pledges for hp laptops. I have gotten good (as in bad) > test reports of the following models that fail one way or another: > * HP eb8730w > * HP nw9440 > * HP Mini 5102 > * HP 530 > > I think we have 2 major acpi issues with these. One of them looks like > an aml bug where we don't dereference an object deep enough and some > thermal zone issues. Unfortunately it seems that these are 2 distinct > issues and therefore potentially require 2 laptops to figure them out. > The laptops in question are relatively cheap on ebay so I think we can > make do with about $800USD worth for 2 machines. > > One of these machines fails to boot; different class of bug but very > interesting nonetheless to fix. > > I am 25% there with pledges. So if you are interested in getting these > 2 bugs fixed send me an email with the pledge amount. I won't accept > cash until we have enough to actually order machines. > > Oh and so that you know once these bugs are fixed we'll try to make > these laptops suspend and resume (an entire different beast!). And > after that the laptops will go to a developer who needs a laptop to work > on. > > Please contact me at ma...@openbsd.org and not on the list.
