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LinuxCon: x86 platform driversLinuxCon: x86 platform driversPosted Aug 24, 2011 19:06 UTC (Wed) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)Parent article: LinuxCon: x86 platform drivers
Does this craziness tend to only affect laptop (and Apple Desktop) systems, or is it creeping into regular desktop systems too? And from there, how long will it be until I can't buy a decent consumer-facing motherboard expecting to be able to boot Linux without a lot of fiddling about?
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LinuxCon: x86 platform drivers Posted Aug 24, 2011 19:26 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
It's mostly only in tightly integrated systems. Some Sony and Acer all in one systems have similar features, but so far they've just reused the code from their laptops so everything pretty much just works.
In most cases these features aren't things that prevent booting (people still expect most hardware to install unmodified versions of Windows), there'll just be some extra hardware that won't work.
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