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Date:      Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:27:40 +0400
From:      Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@fbsd.ru>
To:        frank@exit.com
Cc:        Reg Me Please <regmeplease@gmail.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on laptops
Message-ID:  <1223018860.1842.57.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <1222969522.98558.4.camel@jill.exit.com>
References:  <200810021621.52597.regmeplease@gmail.com> <1222969522.98558.4.camel@jill.exit.com>

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On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:45 -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote:

> > 5. support for other hardware like audio, card readers, i-Link, USB
> 
> USB, good.  Audio, generally good, although the new driver in -current
> has some buggy spots remaining.  Card readers, that depends.  My
> cardbus-attached O2Micro device isn't yet supported, although I think
> I
> saw a potential driver go by on a list recently.  I don't even know
> what
> i-Link is.  USB support is generally excellent.

I believe i-Link is Sony's name for firewire(4) or IEEE1394. And as far
I know it has good freebsd support, including video transfer over it,
ethernet over firewire, and even kernel debugger/console over firewire.

-- 
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova@fbsd.ru



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