[Debian-eeepc-devel] Tested 2.6.26-rc7 on Eee 900
Glenn Saberton
gsaberton at foomagic.org
Sun Jun 29 00:00:10 UTC 2008
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Andrew Lee wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tested linux-source-2.6.26-rc7 kernel on my Eee 900 today. I found
> madwifi-eeepc package failed to build with it. But the new hal branch
> for madwifi[0] builds fine and works. Maybe we shuold push this into
> debian and switch to use this instead of madwifi-eeepc.
>
> And the kernel has merged ACPI support as eeepc-laptop. /proc/acpi/asus
> no longer exist, relocated into /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/, and it has:
> /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/uevent
> /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/modalias
> /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/subsystem
> /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/power
> /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/power/wakeup
> /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/driver
> /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/camera
> /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/cardr
> /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/disp
> /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/wlan
>
> This noticed the eeepc-acpi-script will have to be changed.
>
> [0]
> http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3698-20080604.tar.gz
>
> -Andrew
>
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We could package this ourselves, but the madwifi team aren't totally
happy with the new HAL yet to put it in trunk. There was a thread about
this on madwifi-users. The debian maintainers are very aware of the
upcoming freeze, but want to make sure its up to scratch before pushing
it in.
Cheers
Glenn
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