rawhide and cooker compared
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Feb 22 12:34:33 UTC 2008
Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl) said:
> We (the lm_sensors) project have long had plans to fix 2 and 3 together by
> using dmi BIOS strings to identify the motherboard (circa 80% of
> motherboards have usable id strings, some contain useless strings like "To
> be filled by OEM"), and then have a database with know good configs for
> tried and proven motherboards. We already have a small database of config
> files here:
> http://lm-sensors.org/wiki/Configurations
>
> And for quite a few of those I have a mailfolder with dmidecode dumps
> providing the strings. There have been several projects already to try to
> get a system like this developed (should be trivial really), but none has
> lifted of, the main problem being lack of time, we really need someone to
> pull the cart on this one. Contributers much welcome!
If you can get the DMI data that describes the layout & modules
needed, why wouldn't you put this in the modules themselves?
Bill
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