Re: [LI] linux compatible notebook pc

[Bhyrava Prasad <prasadb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Atul Chitnis wrote:

> The issue is not IBM's policy - the documentation has been available for
> quite a while, 

> This is sort of like the problem with the Xircom RealPort card I use -
> that wasn't supported earlier, either, but is now. 

As far as I remember , both IBM and xircom refused to provide
the info for a long time. Same case with Matrox and Diamond.
Linuxers boycotted such products and Matrox was forced to release
the info. 

How things have changed! Yesterday , ATI said they would support
an open source driver officially. Some time ago , 3Com did the
same thing.

Wish full USB support comes quickly too. That would be great 
for newer laptops.

Incidentally , how is devfs?

- B. Prasad
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