Hi there! I am Octavio Rossell, from Venezuela. I am working in the FSF endorsement of gNewSense-MIPS in the Lemote Yeelong(only free drivers and free bios too), it is possible many of you already know this hardware.
For this goal, few things are still needed, but one of them is concerning the video driver. I have built a WiKi with all info i have collected from internet (web pages, mails and irc chat). The rest needed is to find a xorg developer who can put all this information together and find a better driver and, of course, get a solution. The idea is to have a good video controller for this hardware, making it work more than de "usable" status it has now. Some acelerarion or optimization is needed because sometimes even the simple task of viewing a video is a difficult work for this stage of the driver. The desktop, in this state works in a primitive way and it it not fair to have such a interesting hardware with a so poor controller. This hardware can be an example of quality with an ethic licence and hardware public specs. I even thiks it a way to say "thanks" to the people make possible this hardware thinked and pointed to the freedom of the user... you know about it, in some cases more than me, may be. The idea of this wiki: http://gnu.org.ve/~octavio/lemote/doku.php?id=siliconmotiondriver is to collect all info for makin this easy. If any of you have more info or has a technical correction is ok (is on free editing mode) but is only a space where to put the info with an universal scope. The importance of this is to have for the very first time a hardware with Free BIOS in which all drivers are free software and all of this be endorsed by FSF. This will be good for every Yeelong users. Many people has told me about others who knows about the matter, put they have no time to help this. For this people it is possible to find a way. If some know how but cannot use the time in that, say it. There is always is a way to integrate each others for the Free Software! Regards. -- __________________________________________________________ | , , | | / \ | | ((__-^^-,-^^-__)) Octavio Rossell Tabet | | `-_---' `---_-' octa...@gnu.org.ve | | `--|o` 'o|--' http://octavio.gnu.org.ve | | \ ` / irc.gnu.org.ve #gnu | | .: :. Usuario de GNU/Linux: 278860 | | :o_o: Huella: FC69 551B ECB9 62B0 D992 | | "-" BE57 B551 2497 C78B 870A | |__________________________________________________________|
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