On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:16:43AM +0100, Dieter wrote:
|> No, it's not NetBSD specific
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|A master database with info about support on
Net/Free/OpenBSD and Linux
|would be useful. Bonus points for OS X, Plan9, etc.
uploading a dmesg output would make injection into a
database nice and
specific:
- you can tell what a particular kernel has recognised out
of the box
- you get some info on devices a kernel does not recognise
- you can ask the user pertinent questions about whether
devices work
The very nice thing about the *BSD kernel boot output is
that it's pretty
easily parsed - I have managed to lose my most up-to-date
code, but the
following gives the general idea:
http://www.er
gonaut.org/pub/dmesg-tree/
This works for NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris. Linux
kernel boot
messages would take a lot more work to be doable,
unfortunately, although
they possibly have something in /proc (afacr) which might be
useful.
upload of output from lspci or similar would also be a Good
Thing. None
of these would be difficult to turn into a parsing module
...
HTH,
Malcolm
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