[OLPC-devel] Testing LinuxBIOS installation release

[Jim Gettys]

Yes, but I don't know of any progress actually doing something about it.

What we really ought to do is see if we can sweet talk them out of their
nice web code for this.  I'll drop them a note.  It never hurts to
ask...  Thanks for the pointer to the web site...
                       - Jim


On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 13:01 -0400, 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
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Jim Gettys
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