On Sun, 16 May 2004, Chris Kloiber wrote: >On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 03:49, Chan Min Wai wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hello, >> >> How is this hardware Project working? any plane? >> and by the way are fedora going to come out with some test suit like RHEL3? >> >> Like with the link below? >> >> http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=files >> >> Which will actually increase the speed of testing hardware. >> However I don't really know if this work :) > >I don't see Red Hat doing anything official with Fedora hardware support >anytime soon. That said, the scripts you located should work without >{any,many?} changes on Fedora if you want to go that route. Remember >that these tests are to see if the hardware falls over, they are not >performance benchmarks. There {are,were?} glaring omissions in the test >suite, like modems, firewire, and usb devices more complex than mice and >keyboards. > Well I think most of those were written when many of the items didnt exist (or were definately not on the supported list). The writers of the code were pretty sleep/food deprived at the time of writing so cleanups are probably needed. Thankfully I know that my 1 or 2 additions were cleaned out way before it got to a web page. >I am more familiar with the Red Hat Enterprise 2.1 test programs on that >page, as I used to be the person responsible for testing many of the >IHV's systems during those days. The newer tests are actually easier to >use I'm told, and I can answer questions about them (I may have to ping >the author first, though). -- Stephen John Smoogen smoogen@xxxxxxxx Los Alamos National Lab CCN-5 Sched 5/40 PH: 4-0645 Ta-03 SM-1498 MailStop B255 DP 10S Los Alamos, NM 87545 -- You should consider any operational computer to be a security problem --
