Hi, On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:33:17AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 01:02:23PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > We talked about the possibility to have their hardware being > > > certified as compatible with Debian, and have them advertize about > > > it on their website product pages.
It may have been mentiond here or elsewhere ... K. Muto's "Debian GNU/Linux device driver check & report" is one interesting activity to gather compatible hardware database. http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ This provides extensive list of actual hardware devece supported by Debian GNU/Linux. It relys on "lspci -n" and recent Debian kernel 2.6.39-1-686-pae. Muto-san is DD too and his code for the system is in public. > > > The plan would be to test the hardware (probably with a live CD > > > using a KVM over IP). If it doesn't work, see what driver isn't > > > present, and if the backported kernel has the fix. If it does, > > > in some cases, we could add a patch in a Debian point release, if > > > it's not too intrusive. > > I've been pointed today to some related work which might be interesting > for you, done in the Ubuntu camp: the Ubuntu Friendly validation program > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFriendly>. I've only skimmed through it, > but the idea seems to be: > > - have a collaboratively developed test suite Muto-san's activity lacks this part. > - have community members collect test suite results in a shared place Muto-san's activity at least gets list of recognized devices. I guess, if we have simple POSIX shell script wrapper on * lspci -n (To get hardware list) * uname -r (To get running kernel version) with simple dialog based rating for asking hardware functionality, we may be able to get fairly good data. > It seems something that would be very compatible with the way we do > things in Debian. If, on top of that, some sort of official "labeling" > is needed, we can think about that as well (but it would be pointless to > do that before the community part is in place). > > If you are still interested in this topic, it might be worth to pursue > this approach. It might even be possible to share test suite code with > the Ubuntu folks, depending on how much the tests are tied to the deltas > between Debian and Ubuntu (something I haven't investigated). These require a bit more than booting and checking... but it may be interesing too. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110610131235.ga26...@debian.org
