Re: I2O status and Linux?
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
31 May 1999 20:54:59 GMT
Followup to: <99053113234100.00491@cedar>
By author: Juan Casero <casero@bellsouth.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi Folks -
>
> A couple of years ago there was a big stink on the linux-admin list
> about the I2O bus standard developed by intel and other large
> corporations. The prevailing view back then was that this standard
> would most likely die before broad adoption occurred. Looking
> through the intel web site I was horrified to learn that I2O is
> still very much alive. My question relates to how I2O and Linux
> have evolved since 1996. Has the Linux community been granted
> access to the I2O spec? If not is there any possibility they might
> in the future? Is there talk about a competing open standard
> alternative to I2O? I am not interested in starting a big debate.
> I just want to know where we stand with regard to I2O.
>
I2O has been opened up and Alan Cox is working on it. Note, however,
that although Intel likes to push it (it means *another* Intel chip in
each machine!) the adoption rate is really quite low.
-hpa
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