HAL Hardware Information

[Martin Owens]

Hello again,

What I'm trying to do is collect all the devices together which use the same
linux.sysfs property (minus 2 characters from the end) in a bid to combine
all the devices from the same pieces of hardware. this seems to work for
anything plugged in but the motherboard it's self is a complete mess, I was
hoping to get enough information from various devices to identify the
motherboard but just combing the right devices into the same piece of
hardware is troublesome without an already defined hardware specification of
what I should expect to see.

any ideas on how to identify if a device is a part of the motherboard?

Best Regards, Martin Owens

On 7/28/06, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
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