On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 12:34:12PM -0500, Michel Salim wrote: > Is Anaconda currently checking the machine configuration against a > compatibility database? On some AMD64 laptops (including my HP L2000), > the machine would lock up randomly (without any log message) if booted > without "noapic" (I added "nosmp" for good measure). > > Perhaps a user-maintainable database; we can consider tying it in with > Smolt so that only users who own a particular model can submit > required kernel options for it (to verify ownership, give the user a > token that they must pass to Smolt, e.g. smoltSendProfile > --key=AF32EBD4008) > > Speaking of Smolt, the CPUspeed reported does not seem that useful, > unless it interfaces with CPUspeed to first set the clockspeed to > minimum, take a measurement, then set it to maximum, measure, and then > restore the original setting? My 2GHz laptop was reported as a 1.6 .. instead of faffing about changing speeds, it could just report the contents of /sys/devices/system/cpu/*/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies if present. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
