On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Jeremy Cline <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey folks, > > For some time now, Fedora has operated without a database of hardware > users have. Smolt, the old hardware database, was retired in 2012[0] and > its intended successor[1] was never deployed by Fedora Infrastructure. > > It would be nice to have a hardware database, so I (and hopefully some > others) would like to get Census up and running for Fedora. Before we > look at deploying Census, however, it would be good to make sure it has > everything we need. > > Census has client plugins to collect information[2]. At the moment, it > has plugins for: > > * The vendor, device, subsystem_vendor, subsystem_device, and class from > each PCI device > > * The idVendor, idProduct, bcdDevice, and bDeviceClass for USB devices > as well as the bInterfaceClass, bInterfaceSubClass, and > bInterfaceProtocol for each interface > > * The contents of /etc/os-release > > * All the RPMs installed on a system > > Other than the drivers bound to the PCI and USB devices (which is an > open PR[3]), what else would be good to collect? On ARM any platform "SoC attached" would be useful else you'll get almost nothing as most NICs/SATA/storage/GPU/cameras etc are generally not attached via USB/PCI. This would also include things like SDIO (for wifi), and I suppose i2c/gpio would be useful in that context too. Peter _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
