Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 08:54:23 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [request for testing] isl, cyapa on chromebooks Message-ID: <20161009065423.GA2012@c720-r292778-amd64> In-Reply-To: <20161009015324.007a7b42@bsd64.grem.de> References: <53bca4d2-975f-f4a0-d12a-5d73fba01a0c@FreeBSD.org> <20161006044732.GA2393@c720-r292778-amd64.oa.oclc.org> <734c7ac0-9018-051e-1df4-a3b719057e19@FreeBSD.org> <773efe54-8ebb-e0e7-7824-10cfaa96d850@FreeBSD.org> <1EE0A2F3-86B9-4806-875E-3845A209A743@freebsd.org> <d4501bd4-7b53-0fb7-ab89-f721368f3f04@FreeBSD.org> <20161008180742.GA1912@c720-r292778-amd64> <846bf31f-a757-2be0-a293-8c4ce3d42a2f@FreeBSD.org> <CANCZdfrYhczHJHR3Kq8GSFx5c_6hcrK=1HU12PXcVB-WAo-8QA@mail.gmail.com> <20161009015324.007a7b42@bsd64.grem.de>
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El día Sunday, October 09, 2016 a las 01:53:24AM +0200, Michael Gmelin escribió:
> Would I maybe make sense to have man pages for specific laptops (instead
> of the "FreeBSD Laptop" page, blogs on the internet and Wiki pages).
>
> Just thinking that after this change, people will need to know the
> correct addresses for device.hints to make isl and cyapa work, and
> putting things like that (and other hints, e.g. to route the Intel HDA
> correctly) into a man page ("apropos c720") would be the next best
> thing to having it work out of the box.
Good idea. The problem with such an approach is, that new laptops get
only inserted into man pages when some maintainer/approver does so and
seldom if someone brings a new device to working (more or less) with
FreeBSD.
In the past (some 15 years ago) there was a database and a web frotnend
where people (everyone) could insert/update a new working device. It was
here: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ but the site is offline for
many year. I even tried and contacted the provide of 'bsdgroup.de' to
get a copy of the database, w/o any luck.
matthias
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