Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:00:54 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT Message-ID: <200104241900.f3OJ0sC03144@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <200104241721.NAA97189@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200104241603.f3OG3AB06290@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <200104241721.NAA97189@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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--==_Exmh_-754113091P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:03:10 -0700, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) said: > > > I'd very much like to get comments from people. > > Just a comment on the formatting.... The hardware list would look a > lot better if formatted as a table; e.g.: > > Network interfaces > Gigabit Ethernet > Driver Chipset Supports these devices > ti Alteon Tigon 1 Alteon ACEnic, Netgear GA620, > and Tigon 2 3Com 3C985, [...] > sk XaQti XMAC SysKonnect SK-982x and SK-984x > wx Intel 82452 Intel EtherExpress PRO/1000 > > Wireless > Driver Chipset Supports these devices > wi Lucent/Harris Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE, Cabletron > PRISM II RoamAbout 802.11, [...] ...mumble mumble...what is is, not what it looks like...mumble mumble... Seriously, yes, the formatting can use some work. It's going to take a little work to make this happen. I am not sure if the format you suggested is flexible enough to handle some of the cases we need to do, but I have to go off and think about this a bit. > Providing the name of the driver helps new users to know which device > to select in sysinstall when asked for installation media (or disks to > partition) and also makes the document a bit more useful outside the > installation mechanism. That's a somewhat orthogonal goal, but I think it's also a good one. It's a lot easier to do than restructuring (I think)...we can just add the name of the drivers to the existing classes of devices. I think I can do that with a sweep through the document either before or after the first check-in. Thanks for the feedback...much appreciated. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-754113091P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iD8DBQE65c1l2MoxcVugUsMRAoOVAJ49Qe6UBZTZSxNpmy3v2Yr3TZ/E/wCfZvAh tmWaE9aD0gohb7eRoxvZxtw= =NwJD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-754113091P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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