Hey folks,

For some time now, Fedora has operated without a database of hardware
users have. Smolt, the old hardware database, was retired in 2012[0] and
its intended successor[1] was never deployed by Fedora Infrastructure.

It would be nice to have a hardware database, so I (and hopefully some
others) would like to get Census up and running for Fedora. Before we
look at deploying Census, however, it would be good to make sure it has
everything we need.

Census has client plugins to collect information[2]. At the moment, it
has plugins for:

* The vendor, device, subsystem_vendor, subsystem_device, and class from
  each PCI device

* The idVendor, idProduct, bcdDevice, and bDeviceClass for USB devices
  as well as the bInterfaceClass, bInterfaceSubClass, and
  bInterfaceProtocol for each interface

* The contents of /etc/os-release

* All the RPMs installed on a system

Other than the drivers bound to the PCI and USB devices (which is an
open PR[3]), what else would be good to collect?

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Smolt_retirement
[1] https://github.com/npmccallum/census
[2] https://github.com/npmccallum/census/blob/master/client/plugins/
[3] https://github.com/npmccallum/census/pull/3


-- 
Jeremy Cline
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IRC:  jcline

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