From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 20 10:32:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F3216A4DF for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:32:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail01.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail01.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F248A43D4C for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:32:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-19-236.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.19.236]) by mail01.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k6KAWS2S020810 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:32:28 +1000 Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6KAWStu001541; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:32:28 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k6KAWS4v001540; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:32:28 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:32:28 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: "Charles A. Landemaine" Message-ID: <20060720103228.GA716@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improving FreeBSD's hardware compatibility X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:32:31 -0000 --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2006-Jul-18 22:11:45 -0300, Charles A. Landemaine wrote: >Aside from the fact that some vendors don't cooperate to release >hardware specifications, is there something we could do to revert this >situation? I suspect the major problems are lack of interface documentation for the various chips and non-compliance with standards on things like ACPI. I don't believe there's a general solution to the problem, rather work-arounds need to be developed on a case-by-case basis. > How could the community act to change things? Getting action from vendors has been unsuccessful in the past - the Free OS community (Linux + *BSD) is too small for vendors to be concerned about. I suspect the best solution is to publicise configurations that are known to work and what problems exist with other configurations. --=20 Peter Jeremy --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEv1TD/opHv/APuIcRAoAcAJ0a0yhI3Gr92ZLKplUP3Lf4akciuACdEOVF /5iN4sFDvO65dKSYo0FQKlA= =HGmn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8--