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Date:      Thu, 6 Apr 2000 08:51:35 -0700 (MST)
From:      John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
To:        doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Task for -doc newbie / XML'ing LINT. . .
Message-ID:  <14572.45703.348193.215985@hip186.ch.intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000406095633.B62492@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
References:  <20000406095633.B62492@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>

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[ On Thursday, April 6, Nik Clayton wrote: ]
>
>   * The name of the hardware (which we already have, pretty much)
> 
>   * The category ("Disk Controller", "NIC", "USB", "ISDN", "Serial",
>     "Mice", "Scanners", Other. . .)
>
>       <controller>
>         <type>pci</type>
> 
>         <device>
>           <type>NIC</type>
>           <name>fxp</name>
>           <descr>EtherExpress Pro/10, Pro/100B, Pro/100+ Fast Ethernet
>             adapters, based on the Intel i82557 or i82559 
>             chipsets.</descr>
>         </device>
> 

FANTASTIC idea! As a suggestion, we should have some sort of category stating
which versions of FreeBSD are known to work with piece of hardware XYZ. This
would then allow somebody to make the query "if I buy HoozieWutzit XP4, will
it work with FreeBSD 4.1?" and receive an answer.

I could probably donate some time to gathering information for one of the
above categories (or something on the "Other" branch--seems to me with all the
integrated chipset/peripheral solutions coming out these days, a natural
question is "does FreeBSD work with this motherboard and if so, what pieces of
it, etc." ...). I know nothing of XML but can learn and can at least gather
stuff in ASCII files ;-).

This is a great idea ....

-Jr

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