From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 10:20:54 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 ED68937B401 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:20:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0568843F75 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:20:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mobile.pittgoth.com (acs-24-154-229-196.zoominternet.net [24.154.229.196]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h7CHKpvd026394; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:20:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:11:53 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes To: Hiroki Sato 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: bmah@FreeBSD.org cc: ru@FreeBSD.org cc: linimon@lonesome.com cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org cc: simon@FreeBSD.org 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 17:20:55 -0000 On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:13:19 +0900 (JST) Hiroki Sato wrote: > 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. > 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