RH recommends using Windows? plus a Question!
Xose Vazquez Perez
xose at wanadoo.es
Wed Nov 5 00:59:19 UTC 2003
Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> One thing I want to see happen is a self-service hardware compatibility
> service that makes it easy for users to provide information on the
> compatibility they are seeing with their hardware on Fedora, and for
> which the information is well-enough organized that you can actually
> have good searches for that information.
There is two sources of good information: linux-kernel and Xfree86.
Nearly all devices carry a PCI_ID information inside. Linux kernel and Xfree86
usually collect it to load the correct device driver.
This is a big project, and is better to split it in chunks,
basic PCI HW(SCSI, VIDEO, NET...) first and latter more(USB....):
1- HW detection by Anaconda and kuzdzu
pcitable from hwdata package is the best place to begin.
I have done some work and I am waiting for Martin Mares from http://pciids.sf.net
to send updates to hwdata maintainers.
2 - Documentation about HW supported.
Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> said me in linux-kernel nl that devices supported
by kernel are "already listed in the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE and can be parsed
later by userspace tools quite easily."
Xfree86 :-?
Volunteers? where are python wizards :-) ?
I hope to see some documentation as FreeBSD has:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/hardware-i386.html
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