Hardware notes

[Hiroki Sato]

Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> wrote
  in <3F391569.6080104 at 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)

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| Hiroki SATO  <hrs at eos.ocn.ne.jp> / <hrs at FreeBSD.org>