Hi, On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 10:49:02PM +0000, Jeremy Cline 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? [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Smolt_retirement [1] https://github.com/npmccallum/census [2] https://github.com/npmccallum/census/blob/master/client/plugins/ [3] https://github.com/npmccallum/census/pull/3
Does Census collect info on the CPU the user has and which "flags" from /proc/cpuinfo. About once a year we have a discussion on fedora-devel about for example unconditionally using SSE2 everywhere, and for those discussions have CPU info would be really useful. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
