Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008
Robert M. Albrecht
romal at gmx.de
Mon Apr 28 17:32:25 UTC 2008
Hi,
Mike did actually build the wiki, but it´s hard to find:
http://smolts.org/wiki/System/Sony_Corporation/VGN-FE31Z_C3LMPJWX
http://smolts.org/show?UUID=pub_7152989c-0fbc-4b3f-b9f8-c88f9a630453
http://smolts.org/wiki/pci/8086/4222/8086/1051
The basic work is there, it just needs to be polished and promoted.
cu romal
Robert M. Albrecht schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> Fedoras Mike McGrath has started Smolt. Smolt is included since Fedora 7
> and supports Ubuntu, Suse, ...
>
> Smolt collects hw-informations and sends them to a central server. This
> is done once while installation and regulary while running the system.
>
> https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt
>
> Example: if you want to know, which network interfaces are used:
>
> http://smolts.org/static/stats/by_class_NETWORK.html
>
> The idea was discussed to link this data to wiki-pages, so users can
> contribute to a hw-database: drivers, howtos, status reports, ...
>
> I think it has failed before, because the database would be large and
> needs to be updated very often. But Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap shows,
> this is possible. If every user does only contribute his two PCs, we
> could cover all eixsting hardware.
>
> cu romal
>
>
>
> Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008
> Greg KH greg at kroah.com
> Tue Apr 8 21:20:15 PDT 2008
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> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:04:58PM +0200, PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote:
> > Very very well put. I strongly support this idea of "base", "common"
> > or "centralized" h/w compatibility list (and correspondence between
> > hardware make and model and driver name).
>
> Too bad it's pretty much an impossible task :)
>
> It's been tried before, and failed. If anyone wants to try this again,
> please at least study what failed before and seriously reconsider the
> idea, it is something that I personally think can never be achieved, you
> will _always_ be playing catchup.
>
> good luck,
>
> greg k-h
>
>
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