From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 08:29:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F2137B401 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 08:29:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net (sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net [65.242.152.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E316443F3F for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 08:29:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpb@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net) Received: from sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net (localhost.v6.thrupoint.net [127.0.0.1]) by sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2085C4CF9 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 11:29:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jpb@localhost)h4GFTP7w026379 for freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 16 May 2003 11:29:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 11:29:25 -0400 From: Jim Brown To: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20030516152925.GA26202@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org References: <20030513204720.GA20034@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> <20030514000418.GA735@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030514162611.GA64570@intruder.bmah.org> <20030514182153.GB553@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030514183751.GA65771@intruder.bmah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030514183751.GA65771@intruder.bmah.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: FreeBSD/ia64 5.1-BETA Hardware Notes Page Preview X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 15:29:28 -0000 * Bruce A. Mah [2003-05-14 14:38]: > If memory serves me right, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:26:11AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > > PS. We could *insert* some MD text into those sections so that they > > > are not empty, but I can't make the section headings go away. > > > > Why not. > > It's a really bizarro, stupid SGML problem of my own making. Due to > the way I implemented the MD hardware/release notes stuff, if we turn > off the section headings, they'll still occupy sequence number space. > This would lead to gaps in the section numbering (e.g. "1.1" followed > by "1.5"). > > If I had to do this over again, I would have implemented all of the > conditional text with cpp(1) rather than try to be a DocBook and > stylesheet purist. :-( It *is* difficult to work through the pages as they exist now, trying to make sure you have the proper arch="foo" tags. Ugh. There has been talk on -STABLE of a hardware database project along the lines of the Linux hardware database. If that gets going, we ought to be able to leverage that. > > > If all else fails we can sum up the device we think have > > a chance to work. Just collect all the devices we know about and > > filter out those devices that don't have PCI interfaces. Given > > that we don't have much experience in the field, describing what > > we expect on top of what we know may be informative... > > That's a thought...I think that the sparc64 hardware notes had some > informed conjecture along these lines too (maybe it still does). I seem to be in the middle here- I don't have any IA-64 hardware at all and must depend on the list for knowledge of working hardware. I'll work up a sample table I mentioned in my other email, but I still need to know what to put into it. > > Thanks, > > Bruce. Best Regards, jpb ===