On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:21:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After doing extensive work on making Solaris of the x86/x64 variety more > mobile > and trying to make it the laptop of choice withing Sun (not there yet, but > in much better shape than some time ago), I'd like to propose the > > "OpenSolaris Laptop Community" > > Laptop, I think, is the name which best covers the subject, which would > initially > discuss subjects such as: > > > Laptop quirks > - how to configure a specific laptop so it runs best > (BIOS/xorg) > Sample Xorg.conf repository > Wifi (until it grows its own community) > Power management (PowerNOW! SpeedStep, Suspend to Ram/Suspend to Disk) > PCMCIA/Cardbus > Touchpads > Audio > Weird laptop specific devices > ACPI/ACPICA > > We will move our sample drivers (powernow/acpidrv/gnome-battstat2) to the > community, > I would think. > > Creating a "laptop HCL" would, I think, be part of this.
This is definitely important material we need to have. I'd like to suggest that this go into a section of the as-yet-nonexistent "platform support" community, along with drivers for non-laptops[0], SPARC hardware information, and other hardware-specific content. [0] Especially since many of the areas you mention also apply to desktops, like ACPI and audio. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" Solaris Kernel Team "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
