Re: tested hardware list on wiki?

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > Although the wiki has a list of "Supported Hardware", which I would guess
> > means that someone thinks the hardware works or has worked with some
> > driver associated with some previous version of FreeBSD, I think it would
> > be useful to have people list actual configurations they're using, along
> > with the version of DragonFly they're using, on a separate page.
>
>
> We never will be able to list all the equipment that does work; it may be
> better to list that which does not work; that's a relatively smaller list.

Accurate assesment, but needs a bit of finesse and balance, else
potential adopters will see all negative, no positive - especially
against the claims of {other OS of choice} being ever-so-perfect,
and *so*  'automatic with all hardware'.  A claim seldom true.

While the flames should be banned, we have the quandry over how
to NOT have irrelevant arguments, yet encourage reports of what
has actually been tried and works - or fails to do so.

The d.bugs are, of course, negative - but worse - DragonFlyBSD
is too often blamed for a poor configuration issue, and/or
dodgy hardware - which then (sometimes) also generates
more distraction than proper.

I am on record (in /dev/nul of Matt's MTA if not elesewhere),
as suggesting several of these lists should be read-only to
anyone not an 'accepted' developer.

We can always read them from the archives.

Bill


Bill