Hi, Fedoras Mike McGrath has started Smolt. Smolt is included since Fedora 7 and supports Ubuntu, Suse, ... Smolt collects hw-informations and sends them to a central server. This is done once while installation and regulary while running the system. https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt Example: if you want to know, which network interfaces are used: http://smolts.org/static/stats/by_class_NETWORK.html The idea was discussed to link this data to wiki-pages, so users can contribute to a hw-database: drivers, howtos, status reports, ... I think it has failed before, because the database would be large and needs to be updated very often. But Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap shows, this is possible. If every user does only contribute his two PCs, we could cover all eixsting hardware. cu romal Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008 Greg KH greg at kroah.com Tue Apr 8 21:20:15 PDT 2008 * Previous message: Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008 * Next message: Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008 * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:04:58PM +0200, PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: > Very very well put. I strongly support this idea of "base", "common" > or "centralized" h/w compatibility list (and correspondence between > hardware make and model and driver name). Too bad it's pretty much an impossible task :) It's been tried before, and failed. If anyone wants to try this again, please at least study what failed before and seriously reconsider the idea, it is something that I personally think can never be achieved, you will _always_ be playing catchup. good luck, greg k-h
