[haiku-development] Re: Supporting Haiku on the EEE PC

  • From: "Bruno G. Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:43:02 -0300

The EEE without an efficient power management will not be that usefull. And 
this owuld be 
a lot of work to implement I guess.

-Bruno

On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:09:21 +0200, Ithamar R. Adema said:

> Hi all,
> 
> As some might have seen, I've committed a first version of the network 
> driver for the EEE PC. It is not the driver that was committed to the 
> NetBSD repository, as our FreeBSD layer has problems compiling that, but 
> I found one for FreeBSD 
> (http://www.SpringDaemons.com/stas/if_ae-1214569185.tar.bz2) that 
> compiled. Needs some debugging, but I hope to do that today/tomorrow and 
> get it stable and added to the image.
> 
> Now, I would like _very_ much to have the EEE PC fully supported. But 
> I'm sure I'm not the only one. Is anyone else working on hardware 
> support for the EEE? Can we somehow coordinate this, so we prevent 
> people from doing the same thing?
> 
> Next thing I would like to look at is either the webcam, or some ACPI 
> work for the keys and lid open/close...
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Ithamar.
> 


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rarely count accurately; precision is for applications).



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