Report of a Gentooist about the 3A laptop

[s.bou...@free.fr]

http://teknohog.godsong.org/hardware/naga/

[Michael Dorrington]

On 29/11/12 07:34, s.bou...@free.fr wrote:
> http://teknohog.godsong.org/hardware/naga/

Does it have a free BIOS?
Does does it require non-free firmware for the video or anything else?

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Mike.

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[Michał Masłowski]

> Does it have a free BIOS?

Except for the VGA ROM blob with data used for modesetting.

> Does does it require non-free firmware for the video or anything else?

For graphics acceleration; modesetting works without the firmware on
many GPUs (probably this one also).

[s.bou...@free.fr]

On Sunday, December 2, 2012 12:52:55 PM UTC+1, Michał Masłowski wrote:

> Does it have a free BIOS?

see:
http://dev.lemote.com/cgit/pmon.git
http://www.loongson.cn/dev/gitweb/?p=pmon-loongson3;a=summary
 
and:
http://www.loongson.cn/dev/ftp/lemote/3a-notebook/pmon/

A documentation in chinese is available in the "Loongson3_FAQ_V1.3.pdf" document. See page 22 ff. :

http://www.loongson.cn/dev/ftp/doc/07FAQ/Loongson3_FAQ_V1.3.pdf

and in the document "NeoKylin-Desktop-V6.2-Loongson-QuickStartGuide.pdf", to be found in:

http://www.loongson.cn/dev/ftp/os/neokylin/desktop/NeoKylin-Desktop-V6.2-Loongson-QuickStartGuide.pdf

 

Except for the VGA ROM blob with data used for modesetting.

> Does does it require non-free firmware for the video or anything else?

see:
http://www.loongson.cn/dev/ftp/3aXorg/
 

[Roman Mamedov]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:34:31 -0800 (PST)
"s.bou...@free.fr" <s.bou...@free.fr> wrote:

> http://teknohog.godsong.org/hardware/naga/

Sadly with the cost of 840 EUR + VAT, this is destined to never become a mass
product, not even a libre-geek niche product, like the original Yeeloong was.

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