Smolt: Fedora Hardware Profiler

[Mike McGrath]

On 1/31/07, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/31/07, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Does the profile give any indication whether the hardware is installed
> and working properly (or providing some limited functionality) or is
> it just cataloging its existence?

The LHCP guys are doing this.  Smolt has a much smaller scope.

>
> If it isn't verifying that what is listed is actually functioning as
> it should then I don't really see the value of collecting all that
> data at first boot. It would be just giving a statistical sampling of
> hardware that exists in the world ... however broken it may be on
> Linux. It also wouldn't tell you anything about hardware that is so
> broken and unsupported that it is not even detected.
>
> It would be far more valuable as an automated tool to send in
> consistent data along with a bug report.

Extremely valuable.  But there's only so many hours in the day.  The
LHCP guys are working on this as well.

           -Mike