Re: identifying a 1.75

2011-08-10 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: thoughts/comments? better approaches? obvious additions? Hi Paul timely - I was just hacking on olpc-utils, bitfrost and sugar on exactly the same thing (while on the plane, no internet).

identifying a 1.75

2011-08-09 Thread Paul Fox
on XO-1 and XO-1.5, we were able to discover the model of the laptop from the information under /sys/class/dmi/id. the DMI schema comes from the PC world, and we can't expect it to exist on ARM. there was also information to be found in /ofw on those machines, like serial number, and uuid. the

Re: identifying a 1.75

2011-08-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 16:31, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: on XO-1 and XO-1.5, we were able to discover the model of the laptop from the information under /sys/class/dmi/id.  the DMI schema comes from the PC world, and we can't expect it to exist on ARM. there was also information to be

Re: identifying a 1.75

2011-08-09 Thread Paul Fox
stephen john smoogen wrote: On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 16:31, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: on XO-1 and XO-1.5, we were able to discover the model of the laptop from the information under /sys/class/dmi/id. the DMI schema comes from the PC world, and we can't expect it to exist on ARM.

Re: identifying a 1.75

2011-08-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: thoughts/comments? better approaches? obvious additions? Hi Paul timely - I was just hacking on olpc-utils, bitfrost and sugar on exactly the same thing (while on the plane, no internet). Something along the lines of what you

Re: identifying a 1.75

2011-08-09 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: thoughts/comments? better approaches? obvious additions? Hi Paul timely - I was just hacking on olpc-utils, bitfrost and sugar on exactly the same thing (while on the plane, no internet).