Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 07:14:21 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Joan Picanyol i Puig <lists-freebsd-stable@biaix.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony Cybershot should be in hardware notes (supported by umass) Message-ID: <20030310201421.GK90290@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030307130651.GA9165@grummit.biaix.org> References: <20030307130651.GA9165@grummit.biaix.org>
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On 2003-Mar-07 14:06:51 +0100, Joan Picanyol i Puig <lists-freebsd-stable@biaix.org> wrote: >I haven't found where the 4.8 hardware notes are, It looks like they haven't been written yet. > so I thought I'd just >mention that my Sony Cybershot camera (DSC-P7) works with the umass >driver so someone can add it: [This was the prime reason why I had the Cybershot on my shortlist (and would up buying one) when I went looking for a digital camera]. I think it's already covered by the statement "Owing to the generic nature of most USB devices, with some exceptions any device of a given class will be supported, even if not explicitly listed here." The hardware notes don't list SCSI or ATA devices, it just makes a general statement that they are supported. The major difference is that if you buy a SCSI disk, you can be reasonably certain that it supports the standard SCSI command set. If you buy a USB peripheral it can be difficult to determine what it identifies as. It the hardware notes listed every properly designed, standards- compliant USB device, they'd go on for ever. It would be useful to have a central list of such devices (and a parallel list of ones to avoid) but this is probably better as a common list that can be shared between *BSD and Linux, rather than part of the release-specific notes for FreeBSD. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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