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Even if you got Linux to boot, would you have drivers for the hardware?
by alayne 14y ago
Even if you got Linux to boot, would you have drivers for the hardware?
- mjg59 14y agoProbably. Microsoft's pushed hard to turn the ARM market into something closer to the PC one - Windows RT devices are required to have UEFI and ACPI, so device discovery is a solved problem. As far as the actual drivers go, the majority of the parts are almost certainly also present in at least one Android device on the market, and the touchscreen presumably uses the Microsoft multitouch protocol that's already supported by the Linux kernel. The biggest hurdle you'd face is actually that Linux doesn't support ACPI or UEFI on ARM yet. I believe that Linaro are working on that, though.
- drivebyacct2 14y ago>the touchscreen presumably uses the Microsoft multitouch protocol that's already supported by the Linux kernel. Does that also apply to touchpads? The last thing in Linux that never ever works well for me is the touchpad. touchegg is mildly better, I've tried tweaking synclient with limited success...