From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Dec 18 4:47:10 2000 From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 04:47:08 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1887D37B400 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 04:47:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA09099; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 07:47:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 07:47:05 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Jim Mock Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supported hardware list(s) Message-ID: <20001218074705.A9037@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20001215133609.A23331@envy.geekhouse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20001215133609.A23331@envy.geekhouse.net>; from jim@osd.bsdi.com on Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 01:36:09PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, since nobody else has commented... Yes, please! ==ml On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 01:36:09PM -0800, Jim Mock wrote: > Howdy folks, > > Once again, I've been tasked with getting the handbook up-to-date and > ready to print a 2nd edition. It needs quite a bit of work, most of > which I'll address in another message later. For now, I'd like to get > the hardware list down to *one* place. Right now we have different > lists in 3 places -- the install chapter, the appendix, as well as > HARDWARE.TXT. The last is probably the most likely candidate to be kept > up-to-date, so, I think we should take advantage of it. > > Here's what I propose: > > 1) Nuke the hardware compatibility appendix. It's quite out of date, > and since no one has taken an interest in "claiming" it as their > own, we should get rid of it. > > 2) In the install chapter, do as we do elsewhere -- link to > HARDWARE.TXT on ftp.FreeBSD.org, or to the one on the reader's > system at /usr/src/release/texts/HARDWARE.TXT. Granted, the 2nd > will only work if the reader has source installed, but we could > provide a link to both to make that a non-issue. > > I'm interested in hearing what others think -- I know there are a lot of > folks who'd like to see one hardware list, and I'm one of them :-) > Comments? > > - jim > > -- > jim mock work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org > http://soupnazi.org/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message