On 5 April 2016 at 18:02, Swift Griggs <swiftgri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, co...@sdf.org wrote: > > It would be more fruitful to provide a page where people list hardware > > that works for them, http://dmesgd.nycbug.org is close. > > That's very cool. The idea, in general, reminds me of the supported > hardware database for BeOS back in the day. I got a lot of mileage out of > that. Currently, none of the BSD distros have anything like that which > I'm aware of. I was hoping some of that info would appear in on the wiki > at netbsd.se but then it got taken down and replaced with the official > NetBSD wiki which doesn't seem to get nearly the same amount of love / > content for whatever reason.
I think something like dmesgd, but specifically for reporting how well graphics cards (or onboard hardware) works with specific NetBSD versions would be extremely helpful. Particularly if it could have a suggestion on what to test and user settable fields to indicate same. Sounds like a nice standalone site for someone to write :) What might also be nice would be USB image which could try to fire up X11 and some relevant app or apps to allow people to perform a quick "smoke test" to quickly get *some* data points...
