HAL Hardware Information

[Richard Hughes]

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 11:19 +0100, Martin Owens wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I hope this is also the development channel, I couldn't find a specific list.

Yes, this is the correct list :-)

> I'm developing a hardware identification and report utility, looks
> like I'll be learning python to boot and I'd like HAL developer
> feedback on the primary ideas while I'm building it.

Maybe the source to lshal might be a good start. g-p-m also has some
nice glib bindings to hal if you like.

> Client:
>   * Displays a non-tree list of Hardware (not devices) listing only
> physical things with a nice icon and a simple red/yellow/green LED for
> compatible (Motherboard might be shown, but ALSA Timers and Power
> switches wouldn't be)
>  * Attempt to get updates of hardware profiles from server
>   * Unknown Hardware would appear greyed
>   * Allow changes to profiles, or additions where hardware is unknown
>  * Allow changes to be sent to server
> 
> Server:
>  * Collect all the updates and new hardware profiles
>  * Have users who edit, add and publish from the updates list.
>  * Web Search Interface.

Is this scalable? Imagine 50,000 people asking a single server for
hardware info. Otherwise seems sane.

Richard.