From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 09:07:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C5F4106564A; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:07:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars.engels@0x20.net) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [IPv6:2001:aa8:fffb::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 001658FC1B; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:07:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars.engels@0x20.net) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [217.69.67.217]) by mail.0x20.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 194243A6A4; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:07:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from i011-63.fin-nrw.de (i011-63.fin-nrw.de [193.109.238.130]) by 0x20.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:07:47 +0100 Message-ID: <20081201100747.jivl1alh6owok4s4@0x20.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:07:47 +0100 From: Lars Engels To: Tim Kientzle References: <20081128234155.0221e263@serene.no-ip.org> <3cb459ed0811291342i524eaab3g1acadcd9cbdb638b@mail.gmail.com> <7d6fde3d0811291556g3f08a814td68466ad02dee4fc@mail.gmail.com> <200811291515.01962.beech@freebsd.org> <4932DD73.9000109@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4932DD73.9000109@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=_75i8839qo10k"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.3) Cc: Garrett Cooper , "Conrad J. Sabatier" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Alexander Churanov , Beech Rintoul Subject: Re: i give up X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:07:49 -0000 This message is in MIME format and has been PGP signed. --=_75i8839qo10k Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoting Tim Kientzle : >>>> I have some ideas on that. The problem is it's sometimes hard to check >>>> that given hardware is supported by FreeBSD, even in case you know and >>>> want to do it. The list of supported hardware is often written in terms >>>> of chipsets and manufacturers often produce cards using supported chips= , >>>> but named after their own trademark. > > I wonder if there's some way to partially automate > collecting some of this information. > > Something like a "register" program people can > use to register their FreeBSD installation that > would optionally include hardware information. > (Get a list of hardware IDs and running drivers > from the kernel, then prompt the user to enter > the actual hardware manufacturer/brand name for > each one.) > > Then the process of registering the OS installation > would also collect a lot of information about > "known good" hardware. > > Bonus points, of course, if the register program > first queries the web site to collect lists of > hardware names that other people have already > entered so that most of the time people can simply > click and say "I'm using that one" and only > occasionally have to type in a new brand name. > > The cross-reference information of vendor, hardware > ID, driver, and OS version would be very valuable > for people setting up new systems. Of course, > you'd want to keep careful counts of how often each > piece of hardware was registered and provide an easy > way for human editors to be able to clean up data > afterwards, since there will be a certain amount > of mispellings and simple nonsense. OpenSolaris has a decent tool which collects your harware =20 configuration and automatically adds it to a hardware database and =20 also shows if your HW is suitable for Opensolaris: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.jsp --=_75i8839qo10k Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: Digitale PGP-Unterschrift Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkkzqWMACgkQKc512sD3afiVEACgkSG27BBK3JYdbVNc6JxMTnxw QTYAoKgwf2hAr+MvL0qJFyhpDzTn8C4/ =oQMS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_75i8839qo10k--