Hi guys, I have been thinking about starting something that brings in extra Hardware compatibility and drivers to the stock centos kernel. Perhaps doing this as a SIG might be a good idea. The aim would be ( but not limited to ): - Find and coordinate the efforts by various hardware vendors to support CentOS - Publish a comprehensive ( as much as possible ) install time DriverDisk ( both as an .img and .iso ) - Create, test and publish a mechanism to follow kernel updates ( might need someone to actually have access to some of this hardware, but it should be manageable specially if we can get the attention of hardware vendors ). - Create a feedback-loop that makes it easy for users to request drivers / functionality in the stock and plus kernels. How we deliver on this is perhaps a discussion in itself, and something we can consider when we come to it. - Bring together into 1 place all the various opensource drivers being published by Vendors ( 3ware, areca, tyan, supermicro etc ) for newer versions of their products that are not in the upstream version as yet. This might mean setting up an ftp location somewhere (?) - I would also not mind looking at the very dark grey area of providing updated drivers for some components ( like the recent bcm and marvell ethernet drivers that really do need updating in the upstream kernel ) - but this again depends on how people feel about it - in lots of cases, we might end up step into and through a redhat patch. Now, what does everyone else think ? If I start this, is it going to be only me there or is someone else going to come along for the ride as well ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq