[SPARCbook] What software improvments?

[Thomas Roehr]

David,

When you say better console support, do you mean better then the CG3 hack that
is currently used, i.e. take advantage of the p9100 acceleration chip?

Tom

David Cantrell wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:01:56AM -0400, Thomas Roehr wrote:
>
> > What software improvements does everyone want for the SparcBooks?
> >
> > The inital list I can gleen from the list is:
> >
> > - Video driver for Solaris 7/8
> > - Wavlan driver for Solaris(11 MB's, not the 2 Mb's)
> > - APM integration for Linux/*BSD's
> > - PCMCIA support for Linux/*BSD's
>
> Better console support for Linux (and maybe for BSDs).  On my 3gx, the
> console is painfully slow in Linux.  I'm not so concerned about PCMCIA,
> as the only things I use PCMCIA for on other laptops are ethernet and
> SCSI, both of which are already built-in.
>
> > Also, what would you consider to be the most important one, if you can
> > only get one of those improvements?
>
> Probably APM support, although it really depends on what's annoying me
> at the moment you ask :-)
>
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