Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 12:53:46 +0200 From: Ivan Klymenko <fidaj@ukr.net> To: =?UTF-8?B?5Zu+5r2Y?= <patula777@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new low level hardware support list Message-ID: <20120108125346.7e908f62@nonamehost.> In-Reply-To: <CAASz-w08NgHZnVFKLPCQyk7JnGK4NEXCQv41%2B8JWvUvFObdJFw@mail.gmail.com>
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В Sun, 8 Jan 2012 01:37:53 +0100 图潘 <patula777@gmail.com> пишет: > Hi everybody, > > I'd like to point out the coming (inofficial) hardware support list > for freebsd, > currently hosted for testing at > > http://freebsd.0fees.net/ > > The main purpose of this project is to look up supported hardware and > their corresponding configuration in the most detailed way. > > At the moment we are at a stage where we require some input in order > to start evaluating the data. > > > What we need: > > We need a few dumps from your freebsd machines, (pciconf, dmesg and > kldstat). > Paste them in the dump form and set a few options afterwards. > The whole procedure will take no more than 2 minutes. > > Note > > I am note posting this in the forum for a couple of reasons. > First of all, at the beginning we only require a few dumps in order to > start evaluating, so we do not need too many posters. > Second, we do not want to differentiate (too much) with spam and real > posters and sort out the mess in the database, as our > data validation is still very basic. > > We have also set up an error/feedback reporting tool, there is no > registration required. Feel welcome to use it if you have some > criticism. > > > Additional outcome of this project: > > >From the user input we are able to > + map device id's to their corresponding device classes > + map chipsets to vendor/device id's > + map detailed device information to notebooks. > > The first two mappings do not exist yet (at least we could not find > them on the web). > Those lists, once having enough data will be available for download > to help other people process the data. > > There are possibly some more mappings to come. > > > Further stages: > > Once we have enough data and have evaluated it all, we will simplify > the input procedure so that most recognition is automated. > This step will require some time, as we will have to go through all > the dumps and find the correct relation in dmesg, pciconf, kldstat > etc. > > After having a sufficient base of chipset mappings we will be able to > read out the man pages and create the device support from that based > on the pci device id, > which will further accelerate the growth of the list. > > > As a note, this is not an official project by freebsd, nor a > commercial site. It is only a contribution > site we do in our spare times. If anybody would like to support, > check out the todo list at the site. > > pantu Thank you for your work! What's the fundamental difference your resurs with respect to bsdstats.org? Thanks.home | help
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