Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263394AbTGHPFm (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:05:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263610AbTGHPFm (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:05:42 -0400 Received: from LIGHT-BRIGADE.MIT.EDU ([18.244.1.25]:6922 "EHLO light-brigade.mit.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263394AbTGHPFk (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:05:40 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:20:16 -0400 From: Gerald Britton To: Alan Cox Cc: emperor@EmperorLinux.com, LKML , EmperorLinux Research , "Theodore Ts'o" Subject: Re: Linux and IBM : "unauthorized" mini-PCI : Cisco mpi350 _way_ sub-optimal Message-ID: <20030708112016.A10882@light-brigade.mit.edu> References: <1054658974.2382.4279.camel@tori> <20030610233519.GA2054@think> <200307071412.00625.durey@EmperorLinux.com> <1057672948.4358.20.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1057672948.4358.20.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 03:02:31PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1327 Lines: 27 On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 03:02:31PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Llu, 2003-07-07 at 19:12, Lincoln D. Durey wrote: > > Ted, > > > > This is an amazingly sub-optimal solution, and will make running Linux on the > > T40/X31 prohibitively difficult for most linux users. Do you want everyone > > to use Linux? Then tell IBM to let them use wifi cards that are easy to use, > > and support standard (and open) APIs. > > You don't have to buy IBM products. Dunno what local prices are like but > over here Comaq^WHP's come in at about two per thinkpad on price and do > work once you have all the ACPI stuff set up Some of them have issues with PCI resource allocation though. Their BIOSes don't allocate resources to Cardbus bridges so insertted devices can't get resources and last i checked, we didn't handle this fixup. On the notebooks I worked with it required relocating the AGP bridge and several other devices to make all the resources work out (quick hack is to just shove new resources into the config registers prior to the kernel's initial pci scan). -- Gerald - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/