new low level hardware support list

[Ivan Klymenko]

В Sun, 8 Jan 2012 01:37:53 +0100
图潘 <patula777 at gmail.com> пишет:

> 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

Thank you for your work!

What's the fundamental difference your resurs with respect to bsdstats.org?

Thanks.