Smolt: Fedora Hardware Profiler

[Bret McMillan]

Mike McGrath wrote:
> On 1/31/07, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Mike McGrath (mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org) said:
>> > *Note: this is not LHCP, which is going to be a much larger project.
>> > Smolt has a much smaller scope and will ultimately (hopefully) be
>> > replaced by LHCP when it is ready.
>>
>> So, the issue I see is that the data appears to be stored as HAL
>> descriptive strings - these could change over time. Storing
>> it as vendor/id pairs might be more flexible.
>>
>> (Or is this actually done that way, and the display on the website
>> is what's doing the conversion?)
>>
> 
> They're presently being pulled from the hardware object created using
> the RHN client tools.  I'll look to see what it would take to get
> vendor/id pairs.

Ouch.  The way RHN currently deals with hardware is pretty painful, at 
least server-side; a bunch of us are interested in pursuing something 
more HAL'ish, drop me a line if you're interested, and maybe we can see 
if there are points of commonality.

--Bret