[Hwdb-devel] Re: debian hwdb

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> [2004-06-10 17:26]:
> So: what I would like to see, *that*will*be*better*for*DEBIAN in the
> long run, is a kernel-, os- and distro- neutral database for Free
> software projects.

Before I suggested doing our own hwdb, I looked around to see if there
are (generic) hardware databases already to which we could add Debian
specific content.  Unfortunately, nothing seemed up to date and
maintained.  I agree that having a big DB with all info would be nice,
but I wonder how much more effort this would be.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com