[haiku-web] Re: [Haiku] #3775: List of currently supported HW Drivers
- From: "mmlr" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:11:38 -0000
#3775: List of currently supported HW Drivers
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Reporter: egrath | Owner: haiku-web
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Website | Version: R1 alpha1
Blockedby: | Platform: All
Blocking: |
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Comment(by mmlr):
Well, it's certainly nice to have a list of supported hardware from an end
user side of things. But from the developer viewpoint working hardware is
pretty uninteresting. The end goal is to have all hardware that is
supported by our drivers, to be working. Anything else shouldn't be noted
as non-working in some hardware database, but documented as bugs on this
bug tracker so the issue can be fixed. I realize that sounds pretty bold,
but it's really what we are most interested in right now, things that
don't work as expected. If I for example knew that USB works for you, that
might give me a "well done" kind of feeling, but if it works for you, then
there really isn't anything to do for me, so I don't really need to know.
An easy, automated way of submitting hardware information like you've
proposed in the other ticket makes a lot of sense. The important thing is
that things flagged non-working need to be properly reported, i.e. cause
tickets to be created if they really should be supported by an existing
driver. This makes it a bit more complicated. It would be pretty bad if
testers would simply flag stuff "non-working" and be done with it, because
we then don't get a lot of info that would be possibly be needed. If they
create a ticket instead, we have a communication mechanism to ask back for
extra information. In the long run, as in when we are heading to R1, we do
need an official hardware database so users can check pre-install for the
likelihood of Haiku running. For the first alpha though the motto pretty
much was "install everywhere and report things that aren't working" rather
than a finer grained approach.
If you or anyone has the time to work on such a system, it'd be most
appreciated of course, it's just that noone of use managed to pull it off
for now. As you noted it is also a two-fold task as in, it needs a Haiku
and a web part, which not everyone might be capable of implementing in an
efficient way.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/3775#comment:3>
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