From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 10:14:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D828A37B401; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:14:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.eos.ocn.ne.jp (eos.ocn.ne.jp [211.6.83.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9C8B43F93; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:14:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp) Received: from mail.d.allbsd.org (p38154-adsao12honb4-acca.tokyo.ocn.ne.jp [219.161.135.154]) by smtp.eos.ocn.ne.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAFB4CD5; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:14:55 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost (alph.allbsd.org [192.168.0.10]) h7CHDwd0054122; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:13:59 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:13:19 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20030813.021319.32712236.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> To: anderson@centtech.com From: Hiroki Sato In-Reply-To: <3F391569.6080104@centtech.com> References: <20030810000622.GF396@FreeBSD.org> <20030812152843.GA64916@intruder.kitchenlab.org> <3F391569.6080104@centtech.com> X-PGPkey-fingerprint: BDB3 443F A5DD B3D0 A530 FFD7 4F2C D3D8 2793 CF2D X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: bmah@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org cc: ru@freebsd.org cc: simon@freebsd.org cc: linimon@lonesome.com Subject: Re: Hardware notes X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:14:58 -0000 Eric Anderson 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. [*] http://people.freebsd.org/~maho/USB/media_reader.html (in Japanese) -- | Hiroki SATO /