Re: Getting HW info from vendors for own fun

2005-12-08 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:28:27 +0100, Paulo Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello misc, > >I was curious about something. Is it considered as a sensible thing to >do, to request hardware info in name of the OpenBSD community directly >from vendors, for your own experimentation purposes? > >M

Re: Getting HW info from vendors for own fun

2005-12-06 Thread Nick Holland
Theo de Raadt wrote: ... > Nick is not speaking for the project when he says these things. Nick was barely speaking for himself. My appologies to the OP, as somehow I thought he was trying to get HARDWARE from vendors in the OpenBSD name for "own fun". I managed to miss the word "info" repeatedl

Re: Getting HW info from vendors for own fun

2005-12-06 Thread Theo de Raadt
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:28:27PM +0100, Paulo Rodriguez wrote: > > Hello misc, > > > > I was curious about something. Is it considered as a sensible thing to > > do, to request hardware info in name of the OpenBSD community directly > > from vendors, for your own experimentation purposes? >

Re: Getting HW info from vendors for own fun

2005-12-06 Thread Nick Holland
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:28:27PM +0100, Paulo Rodriguez wrote: > Hello misc, > > I was curious about something. Is it considered as a sensible thing to > do, to request hardware info in name of the OpenBSD community directly > from vendors, for your own experimentation purposes? If it is for

Getting HW info from vendors for own fun

2005-12-06 Thread Paulo Rodriguez
Hello misc, I was curious about something. Is it considered as a sensible thing to do, to request hardware info in name of the OpenBSD community directly from vendors, for your own experimentation purposes? My question comes from the idea that a fun way to learn device driver programming wou