New chassis type?

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Wed Jan 16 10:16:38 PST 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 18:39 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2008, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> >         Type: Space-saving
> [...]
> > This is a Dell Optiplex GX620, with the "Desktop computer" form-factor,
> > as can be seen at:
> > http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/opgx620/en/ug/A02/index.
> >htm
> 
> Is this something we can assume in general? There is no definition what kind 
> of formfactor the different chassi types really are in the DMTF spec.

I have no idea, I must say. We could probably assume so for all Dell
computers if you think that's safer to do in an fdi file.

> > Could somebody change the form-factor from unknown to desktop
> > in ./hald/linux/osspec.c and ./hald/freebsd/hf-computer.c ?
> 
> See patch!

Thanks!



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