[ltp] Improve Linux, win Thinkpads

[Alexander Gran]

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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.

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.

> Provide support for additional hardware accelerated 3D cards supported
> under DRI.

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.

> 5). Challenge: Tune Mesa for PowerPC / AltiVec. Currently, Mesa only
> contains processor specific optimizations for SPARC and x86.

same as above.

Sorry I can think of way more usefull stuff to do...

regards
Alex

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