Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: I2O status and Linux? | Date | 31 May 1999 20:54:59 GMT |
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Followup to: <99053113234100.00491@cedar> By author: Juan Casero <casero@bellsouth.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hi Folks - > > A couple of years ago there was a big stink on the linux-admin list > about the I2O bus standard developed by intel and other large > corporations. The prevailing view back then was that this standard > would most likely die before broad adoption occurred. Looking > through the intel web site I was horrified to learn that I2O is > still very much alive. My question relates to how I2O and Linux > have evolved since 1996. Has the Linux community been granted > access to the I2O spec? If not is there any possibility they might > in the future? Is there talk about a competing open standard > alternative to I2O? I am not interested in starting a big debate. > I just want to know where we stand with regard to I2O. >
I2O has been opened up and Alan Cox is working on it. Note, however, that although Intel likes to push it (it means *another* Intel chip in each machine!) the adoption rate is really quite low.
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