On 5/26/06, Christopher Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It seems like every major laptop manufacturer is locked into Intel CPU, graphics, WiFi, and sound and that there's no chance in hell that Intel will release specs on these. What is the future of laptop support for free Unicies? Will SpeedStep ever be reverse engineered? Are we forever doomed to barely-working laptops?
umm, the graphics and sound for intel chipsets are completely documented. the "correct" way to use speedstep (est) is through acpi, which is also documented, even though we should now pretty much support every est cpu at least basically. the situation with wifi could be better, but if you download the firmware it works. you have either misappraised the situation, or your defintion of barely working is very different than most people's.
