Hardware notes

Eric Anderson anderson at centtech.com
Tue Aug 12 17:27:15 UTC 2003


Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:13:19 +0900 (JST)
> Hiroki Sato <hrs at eos.ocn.ne.jp> wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.
>>
> 
> 
> IIRC, one of the largest problems we have encountered was that sites
> which mirror our web pages might not be capable of working with
> a database.  Perhaps an externally ran database and just a hardware
> search page?

Well, just like the search engine I wrote (and still have not been able 
to "install" on freebsd.org), it would not be a databasee like mysql, 
but a mirrorable one, simple enough for the mirrors to be able to grab.

Eric



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