Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 11:05 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > As I mentioned in my blog[1], I kindof like the suggestion that Bdale > > came up with during Debconf that we write a hardware compatibility test > > of sorts that hardware vendors could run on their own hardware

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-26 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:55:34PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: >>> Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> I'm not so sure that the test should be packages. >>> The system is too different on early boot from a Debian system. >> >> In what way? Note th

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-25 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:55:34PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: Wouter Verhelst wrote: Hi, As I mentioned in my blog[1], I kindof like the suggestion that Bdale Yes, I find the talk very interesting. So, after more than twelve hours of boredom on an airplane and ha

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-25 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Joe Smith wrote: > > "Giacomo Catenazzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> As I mentioned in my blog[1], I kindof like the suggestion that Bdale >> >> Yes, I find the talk very interesting. >> >>> So, after more than twelve hour

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:05:49AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > As I mentioned in my blog[1], I kindof like the suggestion that Bdale > > came up with during Debconf that we write a hardware compatibility test > > of sorts that hardware vendors could run on their own har

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-23 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
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Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:55:34PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As I mentioned in my blog[1], I kindof like the suggestion that Bdale > > Yes, I find the talk very interesting. > > > So, after more than twelve hours of boredom on an airplane and half a

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-22 Thread Joe Smith
"Giacomo Catenazzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wouter Verhelst wrote: Hi, As I mentioned in my blog[1], I kindof like the suggestion that Bdale Yes, I find the talk very interesting. So, after more than twelve hours of boredom on an airplane and half a nig

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-22 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi, > > As I mentioned in my blog[1], I kindof like the suggestion that Bdale Yes, I find the talk very interesting. > So, after more than twelve hours of boredom on an airplane and half a > night of not-being-able-to-sleep-due-to-jetlag, which is certainly > enough to t

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Lamb
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > As I mentioned in my blog[1], I kindof like the suggestion that Bdale > came up with during Debconf that we write a hardware compatibility test > of sorts that hardware vendors could run on their own hardware I think this is a great idea, and I generally agree with your d

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > It is done in a installation where PXE installing work, and the first > step in the compatibility test is to install Debian Edu automatically > with all questions preseeded. If installation work, the hard drive > work. [...] Your idea is good, an

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Wouter Verhelst] > As I mentioned in my blog[1], I kindof like the suggestion that > Bdale came up with during Debconf that we write a hardware > compatibility test of sorts that hardware vendors could run on their > own hardware to test whether Debian works on their system. I saw Bdales talk an

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

2008-08-21 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 06:24:07AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > So, that's probably it at this point. I should have a look at bdale's > talk once it becomes available at meetings-archive.debian.net, but that > doesn't yet seem to be the case. If someone who was at bdale's talk has > anything to