EFI implementation bugs
I'm working on improving various bits of Apple hardware support, which includes trying to make EFI booting on Macs more sensible. One of my test machines is an 11" Macbook Air, which is a beautiful...
View ArticleJoojoo, once more
Having complained about the GPL compliance of the Fusion Garage Joojoo tablet in the past, I'm thrilled to say that I spoke to their new CTO earlier in the week and they now have full source...
View ArticleIn other news
I'm thrilled to discover that GNU-Darwin, which carried the bold claim that "GNU-Darwin aims to be the most free software distribution", distributes copies of the XNU source code with Apple's...
View ArticleLCA 2011 has moved
I haven't seen this widely publicised yet, so just to help make sure people know: Linux Conf AU 2011 is going ahead in Brisbane next week, but due to the flooding it's been moved to the QUT Kelvin...
View ArticleOpen embedded GPUs
Luke: It's great to see open code for the 6410, but I'm pretty sure that that chip uses Samsung's own GPU design rather than being anything PowerVR based. What makes you think it's an SGX? The listing...
View ArticleHardware vexation
My laptop (an HP 2530p) gets quite a lot of abuse. It's been with me enough to have done the equivalent of going round the world 4 or 5 times, and it's typically just thrown in a bag without any...
View ArticleLCA 2011
I'm both back from LCA 2011 and also over the associated brutal jetlag, so if you sent me mail and I still haven't replied then it's fallen down some sort of cliff and you should probably shout at me...
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Further adventures in mobile Linux
I picked up a couple of cheap Linux devices at the weekend. First of all, a $99 Android tablet from CVS, made by Craig. It's a generic RK2818 device and of course it's lacking any kind of GPL offer in...
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Archos tablets
Has anyone tried to obtain the kernel source for the Archos 7 home tablet V2 or the Arnova range (ie, anything Archos is shipping that's based on the RK2818 rather than the RK2808)? If so, what was the...
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Archos update
Archos confirmed to me that they don't have source code for their RK2818-based models at the moment, which means the 7" home tablet (version 2) and the Arnova range all appear to be infringing. For a...
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HTC are still incredible fuckheads
Update: Despite another email yesterday reasserting the 90-120 days lie, the source code has now landed on HTC's site.As has been discussed before, HTC have a somewhat "interesting" interpretation of...
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On platforms
At some stage the seminal KDE vs Gnome paper vanished from its original home, and while it's still available in a few places (such as here) it set me thinking. What are the fundamental differences...
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LightDM, or: an examination of a misunderstanding of the problem
LightDM's a from-scratch implementation of an X display manager, ie the piece of software that handles remote X connections, starts any local X servers, provides a login screen and kicks off the...
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Copyright assignment
The fundamental problem with projects requiring copyright assignment is that there's an economic cost involved in me letting a competitor sell a closed version of my code without letting me sell a...
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Macs and Linux
Firstly: If you want to buy a computer to run Linux on, don't buy a Mac.Secondly: If you have a Mac and want to run Linux on it, the easiest approach is going to be to run it under virtualisation....
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Trials and tribulations with EFI
I wrote about some EFI implementation issues I'd seen on Macs a while back. Shortly afterwards we started seeing approximately identical bugs on some Intel reference platforms, and fixing it actually...
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Rebooting
You'd think it'd be easy to reboot a PC, wouldn't you? But then you'd also think that it'd be straightforward to convince people that at least making some effort to be nice to each other would be a...
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A use for EFI
Anyone who's been following anything I've written lately may be under the impression that I dislike EFI. They'd be entirely correct. It's an awful thing and I've lost far too much of my life to it. It...
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IPv6 routers
I have a WRT-54G. I've had it for some years. It's run a bunch of different firmware variants over that time, but they've all had something in common. There's no way to configure IPv6 without editing...
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Booting with EFI
One of the ways in which EFI is *actually* better than BIOS is its native support for multiple boot choices. All EFI systems should have an EFI system partition which holds the OS bootloaders....
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