>My reading of the counter-proposal was that the users would send in reports
>of the form "I'm running NetBSD/foo on a foo model bar, and it works for
>me." Did I misunderstand?

Nope.

Although it's not really a counter-proposal. It's a buddy proposal.

Perhaps we *should* have a list of 'known to work' pieces of hardware.
This would be, if this were a real commerical product, a compatibility
matrix.