Writing a driver: how do I get resources?

Wilkinson, Alex alex.wilkinson at dsto.defence.gov.au
Wed Sep 24 03:58:52 UTC 2008


    0n Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:05:58AM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: 

    >The Sony driver is somewhat special in that it's not on a standard bus,
    >it's proprietary.  Same goes for the IBM, Panasonic, etc. power
    >management drivers.  For Windows, the OEM even writes this driver, not
    >Microsoft.

What are the best laptops to use with freebsd then ? i.e the ones that dont have
a proprietary bus ?

 -aW



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