Re: [PATCH] Recognize PS3 as a valid machine type (#489263).

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On Monday, March 09 2009, David Cantrell said:
> I'm ok with this patch.  Random comment for further revising  
> platform.py, perhaps we should start using libsmbios if we can.  I  
> played around with the Python module some this weekend and when I did 
> this:
>
>     from libsmbios_c.system_info import get_system_name
>     print get_system_name()
>
> I got "MacBook3,1"
>
> I know it won't work for everything, but maybe we can start relying on  
> libsmbios for more things.

libsmbios is only going to tell us things that can be gathered from the
smbios, which is only present on x86-like machines.  Sadly, most of the
"weird" is non-x86 :(

And for the things that libsmbios can tell us, I think we can get all of
it from hal as well as properties of system.computer.(...)

Jeremy

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