Re: Improving FreeBSD's hardware compatibility

2006-07-20 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Oliver Fromme wrote: PS: I think this thread might be inappropriate for the -hackers list. How about moving it to either -hardware or -chat? (I watch them all, so either is fine with me.) The problem with -hardware or -chat, and, even to a certain extent, -hackers is t

Re: Improving FreeBSD's hardware compatibility

2006-07-20 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Intron wrote this message on Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 19:25 +0800: > On the other hand, so many hardware vendors (especially some small > enterprises, which are eager to obtain software support) > have publicized data sheets of their integrated circuit products, > but so few people would write hardware

Re: Improving FreeBSD's hardware compatibility

2006-07-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Intron wrote: > Peter Jeremy wrote: > > Getting action from vendors has been unsuccessful in the past - the > > Free OS community (Linux + *BSD) is too small for vendors to be > > concerned about. > > I cannot agree with you. Linux has achieved much more support from > hardware vendors than

Re: Improving FreeBSD's hardware compatibility

2006-07-20 Thread Intron
Peter Jeremy wrote: On Tue, 2006-Jul-18 22:11:45 -0300, Charles A. Landemaine wrote: Aside from the fact that some vendors don't cooperate to release hardware specifications, is there something we could do to revert this situation? I suspect the major problems are lack of interface documentat