From owner-freebsd-doc Thu May 23 06:42:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA12549 for doc-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 06:42:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA12544 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 06:42:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA02206; Thu, 23 May 1996 08:24:13 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu: jfieber owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 08:24:12 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu To: Francisco Reyes cc: FreeBSD doc Mailing list Subject: Re: Could not get SGML pages In-Reply-To: <199605231211.MAA246666@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 May 1996, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I am thinking to start helping first with PC hardware compatibility > since that is rather empty. After than I am planning to work in Yes indeed. What I think this section needs first is a good plan. We need to clearly define the scope of the section and the format for the entries. I personally think the nature of this section is ill defined at the moment, and it shows in the entries. Some observations: * A comprehensive list of compatible hardware would be utterly impossible to develop or maintain, but... * A listing of officially supported hardware, and specific hardware commonly known to work well with FreeBSD are helpful to new users, and those purchasing or building systems explicitly for FreeBSD. * Likewise, notes identifying known incompatible hardware, or quirky hardware with workarounds are also very helpful. * There are procedures that are closely tied to specific hardware, but this information is quite different from the above "good" and "bad" and "quirky" listings. Maybe this sort of thing actually belongs elsewhere? > Could we get someone to create a form to place in the current pages > so people could supply their configuration in a formated way? Certainly. > What I am looking for is a form that would generate a file that > could be parsed. For instance something like: > > #CPU: Intel 486/33 > #Video card: Speedstar > #Hard Drive: Maxtor...... Or, since I'm an SGML junkie, howe about something like: Intel 486 33