Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:26:46 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hardware notes Message-ID: <3F392356.8080202@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20030812131153.47d683ff.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> References: <20030810000622.GF396@FreeBSD.org> <20030812152843.GA64916@intruder.kitchenlab.org> <3F391569.6080104@centtech.com> <20030813.021319.32712236.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> <20030812131153.47d683ff.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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Tom Rhodes wrote: > 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? Well, just like the search engine I wrote (and still have not been able to "install" on freebsd.org), it would not be a databasee like mysql, but a mirrorable one, simple enough for the mirrors to be able to grab. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------
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