Re: [request for testing] isl, cyapa on chromebooks

On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 12:54 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru_at_unixarea.de> wrote:
> El día Sunday, October 09, 2016 a las 01:53:24AM +0200, Michael Gmelin escribió:
>
>> Would I maybe make sense to have man pages for specific laptops (instead
>> of the "FreeBSD Laptop" page, blogs on the internet and Wiki pages).
>>
>> Just thinking that after this change, people will need to know the
>> correct addresses for device.hints to make isl and cyapa work, and
>> putting things like that (and other hints, e.g. to route the Intel HDA
>> correctly) into a man page ("apropos c720") would be the next best
>> thing to having it work out of the box.
>
> Good idea. The problem with such an approach is, that new laptops get
> only inserted into man pages when some maintainer/approver does so and
> seldom if someone brings a new device to working (more or less) with
> FreeBSD.
>
> In the past (some 15 years ago) there was a database and a web frotnend
> where people (everyone) could insert/update a new working device. It was
> here: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ but the site is offline for
> many year. I even tried and contacted the provide of 'bsdgroup.de' to
> get a copy of the database, w/o any luck.

There seems to be enough information present in the smbios data to
know what devices are at what addresses. Perhaps we should use it as
much as possible in well controlled situations to move this knowledge
into the OS.

Now, where did I put the power supply to my chromebook...

Warner