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Hi Jan, Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 13:37 schrieb Jan Engelhardt: > >The target market for those boards is using old fashioned > > distributions like CentOS, Debian, Fedora 8 openSUSE 10 and so on.>> Wait a minute, that seems like an impossible dependency. > These boards cannot be targeted for these distro versions, > because the manufacturer knows (hopefully) that the shipped > kernel versions do not have the driver with the required > new code. Yes, of course the manufacturer knows. But the customer wants to get the benefits from the new chipset technologie (e.g. support for quad core processors). The problem that we are facing is that we can't tell the customer "You cannot install actual Linux distributions", especially not when your customer is a firm that offers hosting services based on that platform. :-) This is a general problem that we frequently face with Linux. Whenever a new piece of silicon is released it takes a while until the driver for that (even if it just requires the addition of a device ID) is reaching the distributions. In the worst case the hardware platform will be "out of sale" when the driver finally hits the distributions. :-/ So in the actual case we really suffer from a chipset that is not fully supported by the distribution kernels. Thanks Rainer -- Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rainer Koenig Project Manager Linux Business Clients Dept. IP BC E SW OS Fujitsu Siemens Computers Bürgermeister-Ullrich-Str. 100 86199 Augsburg Germany Telephone: +49-821-804-3321 Telefax: +49-821-804-2131 Mail: mailto:Rainer.Koenig@fujitsu-siemens.com Internet www.fujitsu-siemens.com Company Details www.fujitsu-siemens.com/imprint.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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