On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:36:00AM +1000, Travis Place wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 17:42 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
How about bios_vendor, bios_date and bios_version as well?
How useful is the BIOS information going to be, in most cases ?
Well, ideally most of the time all this information will be useless since everything will work fine :) . I'd expect it to be useful sometimes for handling things like broken information about setup for HDA codecs.
For embedded devices the relevant information is often in /proc/cpuinfo so it might be worth adding that too.
Can i get an example output or 'cpuinfo' on an embedded device (if you have one available) so i can see what im looking for.
The particular output varies with platform and some platforms allow machine drivers to add entirely custom fields - it's probably safest to just include the entire file.