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(a)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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