Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 01:37:53 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?5Zu+5r2Y?= <patula777@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: new low level hardware support list Message-ID: <CAASz-w08NgHZnVFKLPCQyk7JnGK4NEXCQv41%2B8JWvUvFObdJFw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi everybody, I'd like to point out the coming (inofficial) hardware support list for freebsd, currently hosted for testing at http://freebsd.0fees.net/ The main purpose of this project is to look up supported hardware and their corresponding configuration in the most detailed way. At the moment we are at a stage where we require some input in order to start evaluating the data. What we need: We need a few dumps from your freebsd machines, (pciconf, dmesg and kldstat). Paste them in the dump form and set a few options afterwards. The whole procedure will take no more than 2 minutes. Note I am note posting this in the forum for a couple of reasons. First of all, at the beginning we only require a few dumps in order to start evaluating, so we do not need too many posters. Second, we do not want to differentiate (too much) with spam and real posters and sort out the mess in the database, as our data validation is still very basic. We have also set up an error/feedback reporting tool, there is no registration required. Feel welcome to use it if you have some criticism. Additional outcome of this project: >From the user input we are able to + map device id's to their corresponding device classes + map chipsets to vendor/device id's + map detailed device information to notebooks. The first two mappings do not exist yet (at least we could not find them on the web). Those lists, once having enough data will be available for download to help other people process the data. There are possibly some more mappings to come. Further stages: Once we have enough data and have evaluated it all, we will simplify the input procedure so that most recognition is automated. This step will require some time, as we will have to go through all the dumps and find the correct relation in dmesg, pciconf, kldstat etc. After having a sufficient base of chipset mappings we will be able to read out the man pages and create the device support from that based on the pci device id, which will further accelerate the growth of the list. As a note, this is not an official project by freebsd, nor a commercial site. It is only a contribution site we do in our spare times. If anybody would like to support, check out the todo list at the site. pantu
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