Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:13:19 +0900 (JST) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> To: anderson@centtech.com Cc: linimon@lonesome.com Subject: Re: Hardware notes Message-ID: <20030813.021319.32712236.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <3F391569.6080104@centtech.com> References: <20030810000622.GF396@FreeBSD.org> <20030812152843.GA64916@intruder.kitchenlab.org> <3F391569.6080104@centtech.com>
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Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> wrote in <3F391569.6080104@centtech.com>: anderson> If there's still an interest in this, I can whip up some code and we can anderson> give it a try - but I would like to hear at least one person say "I'll anderson> help enter data." I am interested in this. A list of actual vender/model names of supported hardware is useful, but from the maintainer's point of view, it is a very hard job to keep such information up-to-date as Bruce said. Although I agree with the idea to gut out descriptions in the hardware notes down to the device driver level, I think maintaining information about individual devices out of the notes is still valuable. If we have a hardware database separately from the hardware notes, can we ask a lot of FreeBSD users to enter their hardware info via WWW interface or so? Maho's USB device compatibility list [*] has used a similar model. The list includes >200 devices, but manually maintained via email now. [*] http://people.freebsd.org/~maho/USB/media_reader.html (in Japanese) -- | Hiroki SATO <hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> / <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
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