Well, there are some different ways of approaching this. Either we physically state the machine is meant to be a specific machine type using a command line option or we try to infer it (e.g. has it got a battery, then 'probably' it's a mobile platform of some sort).
Perhaps we should have a command line option called: --machine-type= and have different options like infer, desktop, laptop, netbook, server, unknown, other, etc. The default should be infer, so if a user does not specify this, we try and make fwts do the right thing, even if it means guessing what kind of platform it is from various attributes (e.g. has it got a battery, etc). And then we can then expand the DMI test to sanity check Section 7.4.1 of the SMBIOS spec "System Enclosure or Chassis Types" and also make the acpitables acpi_table_check_fadt() function sanity check the preferred_pm_profile field too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897298 Title: fwts should test chassis type To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts/+bug/897298/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
