Just to remind people, it's important for the OpenBSD developers to keep track of what hardware works, and what hardware doesn't work perfectly.
A quote from /usr/src/etc/root/root.mail
If you wish to ensure that OpenBSD runs better on your machines, please do us
a favor (after you have your mail system configured!) and type something like:
# dmesg | mail -s "Sony VAIO 505R laptop, apm works OK" dmesg@openbsd.org
so that we can see what kinds of configurations people are running. As shown,
including a bit of information about your machine in the subject or the body
can help us even further. We will use this information to improve device driver
support in future releases. (Please do this using the supplied GENERIC kernel,
not for a custom compiled kernel, unless you're unable to boot the GENERIC
kernel. If you have a multi-processor machine, dmesg results of both GENERIC.MP
and GENERIC kernels are appreciated.) The device driver information we get from
this helps us fix existing drivers. Thank you!
Make sure you send email from an account that is able to also receive email so developers can contact you if they have something they want you to test or change in order to get your setup working. It's not important at all to send the email from the same machine that is running OpenBSD, so if that machine is unable to receive email, just
$ dmesg | mail your-account@yourmail.dom
and then forward that message to
dmesg@openbsd.org
where your-account@yourmail.dom is your regular email account.
NOTES
• Please send only GENERIC kernel dmesgs. Custom kernels that have device drivers removed are not helpful.
• If you have a supported multiprocessor system and normally run the GENERIC.MP kernel, it is helpful to developers to see the dmesg output of both the GENERIC kernel and the GENERIC.MP kernel, so please send both of them in separate emails.
• The dmesgs are received on a computer using the spamd spam rejection system. This may cause your dmesg to not be accepted by the mail servers for a period of time. Be patient, after half an hour to an hour or so, it will get through.
The method above is very easy, but if you have chosen not to configure mail on your OpenBSD system, you should still send your dmesg to the developers. Save your dmesg output to a text file.
$ dmesg > ~/dmesg.txt
Then transfer this file (using FTP/scp/floppydisk/carrier-pigeon/...) to the system you normally use for email. Since the dmesg output you send in is processed automatically, be sure to check the following when using alternate email clients/systems:
• Configure your email client to send messages as plain text; do not use HTML-formatted email.
• Turn off any forced line break feature. Many email clients are configured to insert line breaks at 72 columns (the norm for mailing lists).
• Make sure your email client does not reformat messages into "text-flow" nonsense.
• Do not send the dmesg output as file attachment. Put the dmesg output into the body of the message.
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