From owner-freebsd-drivers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 10:01:06 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 451B5106566B for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:01:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from patula777@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f54.google.com (mail-pz0-f54.google.com [209.85.210.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 211458FC17 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:01:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dady13 with SMTP id y13so2747950dad.13 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:01:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=lK6gBfDwPoNIqiG7H7ToA71raRPNcKEOAw26a0jr7M8=; b=WkhU8u5vDGyflZyqaRqq9jG6hh5tzKYQG76+CTTHehsFWiWHhU4L5dxioJYAsl1Qf8 HpDJExH/7X8ACreGYRkrxw7Hkp+gWKiCLsuByRmJfLaYDoUfasN7zA+86NDltXN84TcU J4P2DX/VQoUVQrgtRTDxjx7mPGAIMh+igD1NY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.74.41 with SMTP id q9mr33304729pbv.129.1326792978406; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:36:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.112.21 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:36:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:36:18 +0100 Message-ID: From: =?UTF-8?B?5Zu+5r2Y?= To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Dear driver developer (please read) X-BeenThere: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Writing device drivers for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:01:06 -0000 Dear driver developer, currently when I am trying to get information about a working device, I visit the freebsd harware notes, check for the name and then go to the manual page. The manual pages unfortunately only states chipsets and not vendor/device id's and at the moment there is no clear mapping between the two. So this is what we are trying to establish at http://freebsd.0fees.net One of my team mates had the idea to create an interface at the above stated page for driver developers to submit your data directly and correctly mapped. The data will still be independent from user submitted data about working/not working devices This would create a couple of benefits: + if you submit data for a particular chipset (not a card) based on vendor/device id (without the subsystem) you can see what user report about this particular chipset on different cards and possible incompatibilities of different cards using the same chip could be discovered more transparently. + a clear mapping between chipset names and vendor/device id would evolve. + and possibly some more i cannot think of right now. The question right now is: Does it make sense to you and would you submit the data? If yes, we would like to make it as simple as possible for you to submit the data and create this interface based on your ideas (such as would data you need to submit and how you want to have the actual view of the relation between your data compared to the user submitted data. Please feel free to discuss about this being rubbish or a good idea.