Subject: Re: Supported Hardware Database for NetBSD. Contribute!
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
From: Richard Rauch <rkr@rkr.kcnet.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 02/03/2000 17:51:47
> > Unless the authors actively maintain a NetBSD implementation, it's not
> > really their job to figure out how well it works on our system.  Wasn't
> > there an ATAPI<->SCSI issue along these lines (some tool claimed not to
> > support ATAPI, though in fact it worked well with NetBSD
> > ATAPI)?  Providing that information isn't the job of the software author.
> > IMHO.
> 
> I do agree wit you in this particular instance.  CD's CDW's etc are excellent
> examples of something that should definately be in the database.  Tablets
> possibly are too.. assuming anyone out there actually has one.

I almost had one.  (I saw a tempting one at a local Micro Center.  I
passed on it because I was pretty sure that it wasn't currently supported,
and I didn't have time to even think about trying to hack X to support
it..)


> BTW- The page looks excellent.

Thanks.  Hopefully it will be of some use to someone.  Ideally, someone
with more time for maintaining it will adopt it.


  "I probably don't know what I'm talking about."  --rkr@rkr.kcnet.com