[ltp] Improve Linux, win Thinkpads

[Antiphon]

On August 25, 2004 03:13 pm, Alexander Gran wrote:
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>  Am Mittwoch, 25. August 2004 19:25 schrieb Dax Kelson:
>  > Reduce boot time on a Thinkpad, from power-on to multi-user login
>  > (either runlevel 3 or 5), by at least 50%, compared to a stock system
>  > installed with the same packages. The same services must be offered, but
>  > they may of course be started asynchronously as dependencies allow.
>  > Modification should be transparent to a system administrator, that is
>  > any upgrades (ie chkconfig) should be backward compatible.
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>  Whua. If that was easily possible, the distributions would do it
> themselfes. backward compatible speed increases of >50%. come on, guys.
>  And, If IBM ever fixes their ACPI implementation, everyone would have STR,
> and no one would boot.
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>  > Provide support for additional hardware accelerated 3D cards supported
>  > under DRI.
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>  This is the job of the hardware manufactors and not of students. Why do
> you think are we paying server $$$$ for a single thinkpad. You guys could
> at leas write some drivers.
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>  > 5). Challenge: Tune Mesa for PowerPC / AltiVec. Currently, Mesa only
>  > contains processor specific optimizations for SPARC and x86.
>
>  same as above.
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>  Sorry I can think of way more usefull stuff to do...
>
>  regards
>  Alex
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They're figuring it's cheaper to spend a few pennies trying to get the 
community to develop the software instead of paying more to have staff do it.