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Fwd: RFC: Free Software Hardware Compatibility - Centralised DB

Hi,

I am forwarding this in here with Zenaan's permission.  Zenaan is now
subscribed to xvendor too, so comments on the need for and feasibility
of his proposal may be posted in here.  Detailed discussion of actual
implementation of his proposal should, however, occur on its separate
mailing list (to be created).

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Havoc Pennington | 14 Jun 16:15

Re: Fwd: RFC: Free Software Hardware Compatibility - Centralised DB

Hi,

A quick comment, I think the HAL project needs to be involved here. HAL
is intended to be cross-UNIX-platform (cover BSD, Linux, Solaris, etc.)

http://freedesktop.org/Software/hal

Havoc

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Zenaan Harkness | 14 Jun 21:40

Re: Fwd: RFC: Free Software Hardware Compatibility - Centralised DB

On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 00:15, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A quick comment, I think the HAL project needs to be involved here. HAL
> is intended to be cross-UNIX-platform (cover BSD, Linux, Solaris, etc.)
> 
> http://freedesktop.org/Software/hal

Yes, thanks - I have been subscribed to HAL now since May 29,
just lurking so far.

A couple of key extracts from some other discussions (primarily with
some Debian folk who are undecided about whether to do something by
themselves or support a community-wide project):

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Manual submissions (ie. just an email address/ nice web pages):

* Manual submission will produce better submissions (the hwdb team
can engage the submitter where required (perhaps nearly always) to
try to get more and better information.

* As we build the DB, manual submissions will give us the scope to
easily and readily modify/ fine-tune the schema as needed.

* The submission interface will never be broken, incomplete or
"down for maintenance" since it's just "send us an email".

* We can launch immediately, and with a robust interface.
Ie. we won't waste time having to get the software right

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