On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Jeremy Cline <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?

On ARM any platform "SoC attached" would be useful else you'll get
almost nothing as most NICs/SATA/storage/GPU/cameras etc are generally
not attached via USB/PCI. This would also include things like SDIO
(for wifi), and I suppose i2c/gpio would be useful in that context
too.

Peter
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