+1 for the proposal, but I'd recommend a different name. When I see
HDD, I think "Hard Disk Drive". Perhaps driver-detect or something similar?
-- Garrett
Yan Xue Yang wrote:
> Proposal for Hardware Driver Detection Project (HDD)
>
> Purpose: The primary purpose of this tool is designed for opensolaris.
> It has the following functions:
> 1. Display device information and device driver information on the system.
> 2. Check the device driver availability on IPS.
> 3. Dynamically add device driver from IPS.
> 4. Report system configurations to the OpenSolaris community.
>
> List of Community Groups Sponsoring the project:
> Indiana
> Device Driver
>
> List of project team members:
> Tony Hu Sun employee
> Zhong Yuan Sun Sun employee
> Bill Yan Sun employee
>
> Project Description: The purpose of this project is to offer the ability
> to verify device driver support for the system against driver packages
> available via the OpenSolaris community and be able to dynamically add
> driver support to the running Live CD environment when requested by the
> user. The user will have the option of reporting system configurations
> back to the OpenSolaris community in this tool, for use in constructing
> a community hardware compatibility lists.
>
>
> Project Needs: This project requires project space on OpenSolaris.org
> site. The project also requires a mailing list. Suggested list name is
> hdd at opensolaris.org.
>
> Related Projects: Unknown.
>
> Related past activities: The prototype of this tool is ready now.
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>
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