[OLPC-devel] Testing LinuxBIOS installation release

[Ronald G Minnich]

Samat Jain wrote:
> On Thursday 24 August 2006 12:30, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 
>>So, OLPC is going to have to have a 'known good' list for USB hardware, 
>>I think. I don't see a way out. I have a 512MB PNY dongle that worked 
>>"for a while" on my t41, and works fine on OLPC; a 1GB sandisk that 
>>works fine on the laptop, though only with powered hub; same sandisk 
>>works fine on OLPC WITHOUT powered hub; and so on.
> 
> 
> There had been talk of a USB device compatibility list, similar to 
> http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/, with some extra fields useful for us (e.g. 
> powered hub required or not, etc).
> 
> Does interest in this still exist?
> 
> Samat

I think we have to have it.

ron