Hello David, On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 07:50:14PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote: > Is anyone interested in putting together a small webapp to record > dmesg output from NetBSD booting on various hardware? > > At the minimum it probably just needs a form with: > - dropdown for architecture (i386/alpha/atari etc) > - input field for machine name > - textarea for dmesg > - textarea for notes > - input field for email (optional) > > And then some pages to show listings and with links to individual > entries. > > Its likely to need general maintenance to weed out spam > and other worthless entries. > > We already have http://wiki.netbsd.se/Category:dmesg, but > the above could be quite helpful when people are trying to > work out if specific hardware is supported. It could also > be very useful in working out which NetBSD versions have > been tested on more obscure platforms. IMO it's a nice idea, and very useful both for the "average" NetBSD users and new NetBSD users. It could be handy when a NetBSD user need to buy a new hardware, i.e. a wireless card, if she could see how many users has got a specific card she will probably buy the most used (and tested). I saw that The *BSDstats Project[0] has got a similar service, just for an example please see this page[1] (about ethernet and wireless cards). However I didn't see any informations about NetBSD, and I think that these stats are *only* for FreeBSD (please see these pages about NetBSD[2] and FreeBSD[3], the NetBSD devices list is empty). I like the input field for notes and email too, in order to directly get in touch and contact a user who has got a determinate hardware (and it seems that The *BSDstats Project has not got this service). [0]: http://bsdstats.org/ [1]: http://bsdstats.org/bt/devices/class/02/subclass/00.html [2]: http://bsdstats.org/bt/devices.html?os=NetBSD [3]: http://bsdstats.org/bt/devices.html?os=FreeBSD Ciao, Leonardo -- Leonardo Taccari | Peace, love and NetBSD. | http://leot.netsons.org/
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