Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:11:53 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: simon@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hardware notes Message-ID: <20030812131153.47d683ff.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030813.021319.32712236.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> References: <20030810000622.GF396@FreeBSD.org> <20030812152843.GA64916@intruder.kitchenlab.org> <3F391569.6080104@centtech.com> <20030813.021319.32712236.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:13:19 +0900 (JST) Hiroki Sato <hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> wrote: > Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> wrote > in <3F391569.6080104@centtech.com>: > > anderson> If there's still an interest in this, I can whip up some code and we can > anderson> give it a try - but I would like to hear at least one person say "I'll > anderson> help enter data." > > I am interested in this. A list of actual vender/model names of > supported hardware is useful, but from the maintainer's point of view, > it is a very hard job to keep such information up-to-date as Bruce said. > > Although I agree with the idea to gut out descriptions in the hardware > notes down to the device driver level, I think maintaining information > about individual devices out of the notes is still valuable. > If we have a hardware database separately from the hardware notes, > can we ask a lot of FreeBSD users to enter their hardware info via WWW > interface or so? Maho's USB device compatibility list [*] has used a > similar model. The list includes >200 devices, but manually > maintained via email now. > IIRC, one of the largest problems we have encountered was that sites which mirror our web pages might not be capable of working with a database. Perhaps an externally ran database and just a hardware search page? -- Tom Rhodes
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