Hi all,
Lately I've run into some stuff wich needs tweaking to get it 100% which
is motherboard dependend. Things which (may need) motherboard specific
tweaks are:
-lm_sensors
-xorg.conf for mainbords with builtin graphics
(Option "VBERestore" "true" for i810 for example)
So now I'm thinking about creating somekinda hwautodetect and autoconfig
architecture and program for this.
Questions:
-good/bad idea?
-anyone willing to help?
-how can one detect the exact mainboard (Producer, type, rev)?
Ideas:
-memmap the bios, checksum it
-memmap the bios get identifier string, match to a regex
-combine the above with PCI id matching for chipset (extra check)
-which motherboardspecific settings can be benefitial?
So far I have:
-lm_sensors
-xorg.conf for mainbords with builtin graphics
(Option "VBERestore" "true" for i810 for example)
-onboard sound tweaks??
-what database backend to use?
preferably one which is already required by the core of most distros
(This is primarily targeted at Fedora, but I would like to make it
distro independent if possible)
-what is a good implementation language for this?
I'm thinking about a C-python mix, C for the detection, python for the
rest.
Regards,
Hans
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