Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-07-08 Thread Philip Hands
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 09:17:09 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Non-text part: multipart/signed > On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 12:48:17PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > > > That's the kind of very simple list that I was hoping to build. But the > > > > list isn't the final goal. The goal is to *fix* issue

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-07-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 12:48:17PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > > That's the kind of very simple list that I was hoping to build. But the > > > list isn't the final goal. The goal is to *fix* issues when we see them, > > > like it happened for the X8STi-F in Debian 5.04. > > > > In that case, ar

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > That seems like a good idea -- how about if we encouraged willing hardware > manufacturers to maintain a pseudo package type thing, perhaps per > device, although it would be good to have some sort of wild-card so that > one could report a bug

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-07-05 Thread Philip Hands
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 14:23:56 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > That's the kind of very simple list that I was hoping to build. But the > > list isn't the final goal. The goal is to *fix* issues when we see them, > > like it happened for the X8S

Re: Debian Hardware Compatibility List (Debian hardware certification)

2011-07-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > To advance on this, we need someone leading the initiative and, as step > 0, add all the missing wrapping (live cd, submission interface, etc.). > Collaborative test suite and the like can be added later, once the > submission interface

Re: Debian Hardware Compatibility List (Debian hardware certification)

2011-07-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:12:35PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:33:17AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 01:02:23PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > > We talked about the possibility to have their hardware being > > > > certified as compatible

Debian Hardware Compatibility List (Debian hardware certification)

2011-06-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:33:17AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 01:02:23PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > We talked about the possibility to have their hardware being > > > certified as compatible with Debian, and have them advertize about > > > it on their we

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-06-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 01:02:23PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > We talked about the possibility to have their hardware being > > certified as compatible with Debian, and have them advertize about > > it on their website product pages. > > > > The plan would be to test the hardware (probably wit

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-06-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Hi Ben! On Sat, 04 Jun 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Debian main uses the same standard as h-node. > > Yes. Debian users don't. Indeed. At least not in the datacenter, where > 90% of the GOOD servers (i.e. the ones whose firmware is actually tested to interoperate with Linux, firmware updates

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-06-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
level. Nonetheless---and replying to an argument raised further down in the thread---Debian is constitutionally bound to be fully Free. So if we are ever going to have *the* debian hardware certification website, that website should list by default hardware compatible with Debian (i.e. main). That i

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-06-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > That's the kind of very simple list that I was hoping to build. But the > list isn't the final goal. The goal is to *fix* issues when we see them, > like it happened for the X8STi-F in Debian 5.04. In that case, are you sure that bugs.debi

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-06-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/04/2011 06:28 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 11:42 -0400, John Sullivan wrote: >> Thomas Goirand writes: >> >>> The point is to have a system so that manufacturers can write "this >>> system supports Debian". If they don't want to do the work, we could, >>> and help each ot

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-06-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 23:36 -0400, John Sullivan wrote: > Ben Hutchings writes: > > > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 11:42 -0400, John Sullivan wrote: > >> Thomas Goirand writes: > >> > >> > The point is to have a system so that manufacturers can write "this > >> > system supports Debian". If they don't

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-06-03 Thread John Sullivan
Ben Hutchings writes: > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 11:42 -0400, John Sullivan wrote: >> Thomas Goirand writes: >> >> > The point is to have a system so that manufacturers can write "this >> > system supports Debian". If they don't want to do the work, we could, >> > and help each other by having a l

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-06-03 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2011/6/3 John Sullivan : > Thomas Goirand writes: >> The point is to have a system so that manufacturers can write "this >> system supports Debian". They can do that if they like. >> If they don't want to do the work, we could, >> and help each other by having a list of hardware that is kn

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-06-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 11:42 -0400, John Sullivan wrote: > Thomas Goirand writes: > > > The point is to have a system so that manufacturers can write "this > > system supports Debian". If they don't want to do the work, we could, > > and help each other by having a list of hardware that is known t

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-06-03 Thread John Sullivan
Thomas Goirand writes: > The point is to have a system so that manufacturers can write "this > system supports Debian". If they don't want to do the work, we could, > and help each other by having a list of hardware that is known to work > with Debian, and a list of hardware with issues. If they

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-05-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/22/2011 10:00 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 01:02:23PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> And here's my follow-up with some of the answers: >> On 05/21/2011 08:00 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > > You realize that you just leaked d-private without asking first? Gosh, no I didn'

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-05-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 01:02:23PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > And here's my follow-up with some of the answers: > On 05/21/2011 08:00 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: You realize that you just leaked d-private without asking first? > > They can already declare Debian a supported system. They have to

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-05-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thomas Goirand] > The plan would be to test the hardware (probably with a live CD > using a KVM over IP). If it doesn't work, see what driver isn't > present, and if the backported kernel has the fix. If it does, in > some cases, we could add a patch in a Debian point release, if it's > not too i

Re: Debian hardware certification

2011-05-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, I started a thread on debian-private, because I didn't know where to post. So there's already a (very short) discussion that started. Here's my original message: On 05/21/2011 07:11 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi there, > > I didn't know where to post, so I'm posting here. Let me know where I