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Date:      Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:42:14 -0700
From:      bmah@freebsd.org (Bruce A. Mah)
To:        taxman <taxman@ACD.NET>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: boot2 broken ? (booting from pst fails) 
Message-ID:  <200304171642.h3HGgExV098213@bmah.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200304171228.38808.taxman@acd.net> 
References:  <200304142136.XAA28381@faui40p.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <200304171550.h3HFoqxV097075@bmah.dyndns.org> <200304171228.38808.taxman@acd.net>

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[Back to hackers@ with permission...]

If memory serves me right, taxman wrote:

> sorry for the direct reply, but -hackers didn't seem appropriate for my 
> question.  So what is the best way to have the most accurate hardware lists? 
>  
> Should people email -hardware every time they have something working that is 
> not mentioned, or something that does not work or an approximate status of a 
> piece of hardware if it is semi-supported?  Or should they email you?,etc
> feel free to cc the answer back to hackers or harware if thats appropriate.

>From my perspective, the best thing I can think of is that if you have
something you know that works (but is not mentioned), file a doc PR with
a patch.  If you don't speak DocBook, that's OK, file a PR with some
English text and someone will mark it up for you.  I'll probably be the
one to do it, but if I'm lucky some other doc committer will take pity
on me and help out.

Note that in some cases, the hardware notes could be updated using
information from the manual pages from a driver.

Knowing that something *doesn't* work is more useful to whoever 
maintains a particular driver.

There's some areas where there are a gazillion supported devices (I'm
thinking of USB hubs as an example) where we can probably shorten the
list by saying "in general, all devices of type FOO are supported".

Thanks,

Bruce.

PS.  Someone else pointed out that my "pedestrian hardware" comment was
a bit ambiguous.  I would appreciate help documenting less-mundane
hardware.  I'm not asking for donations of hardware.  :-)



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