Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:33:41 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> To: =?UTF-8?B?5Zu+5r2Y?= <patula777@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware List Message-ID: <4EDC0355.4030908@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAASz-w3Qc8_Fgu2UDYax7JQ0WLnLtMx7QNAF%2Bd2MCZrZCdez%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAASz-w3Qc8_Fgu2UDYax7JQ0WLnLtMx7QNAF%2Bd2MCZrZCdez%2BQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/4/11 23:54 , 图潘 wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am trying to build a freebsd hardware compatibility database merging it > with vendor hardware databases, so that searching for supported devices or > products will be easier than checking the man pages or the web. > > Anyway, I checked the hardware release notes as a first start and stopped > at the statement. > > Note: The device lists in this document are being generated automatically > from FreeBSD manual pages. This means that some devices, which are > supported by multiple drivers, may appear multiple times. > > So, could anybody tell me how you generate this list. > I would use this script and generate a list, that more fits the structure > of the database. > The hardware notes are mostly compiled from the HARDWARE sections of the section 4 manpages. The interesting files are the following: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml src/release/doc/share/misc/man2hwnotes.pl src/release/doc/share/misc/dev.archlist.txt doc/share/sgml/man-refs.ent Note that there are still some "manual" entries in article.sgml. Cheers, Chris
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