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From: Matthew Marchese <maffblaster@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Hardware database
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 07:26:34
Message-Id: 56D3F29D.4020706@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Hardware database by "Michał Górny"
1 On 02/09/2016 07:01 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 17:53:09 +0300 > agentsmith <igorsavlook@×××××.com> wrote: > >> Cool tool i create
3 ebuild. >> >> On 02/09/2016 05:47 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
4 >
5 > > Could
6 >
7 > On 02/09/2016 05:55 AM, Urbain YANG wrote:
8 > >>>> Thank you very much!
9 > >>>>
10 > >>>> And wish it will be merged into Portage soon.
11 > >>>>
12 > >>>>
13 > >>>> Urbain YANG urbain.yang@××.com <mailto:urbain.yang@××.com>
14 > >>>>
15 > >>>>
16 >
17 > > you
18 >
19 > >>>>
20 > >>>>
21 > >>>>> 在 2016年2月9日,下午9:33,Ponomarenko Andrey
22 > >>>>> <andrewponomarenko@××××××.ru
23 > >>>>> <mailto:andrewponomarenko@××××××.ru>> 写道:
24 > >>>>>
25 > >>>>> Hello,
26 > >>>>>
27 > >>>>> I have released a new version of the hardware probe tool — HW
28 > >>>>> Probe 1.0, that supports Gentoo and some other popular Linux
29 > >>>>> distributions. The "probe" is a snapshot of the hardware state
30 > >>>>> including a list of devices on board and system logs. The primary
31 > >>>>> purpose of the tool is to share the probe of the computer with
32 > >>>>> developers or other users for the collaborative debugging of
33 > >>>>> hardware problems on it.
34 > >>>>>
35 > >>>>> All probes are uploaded to the central database at
36 > >>>>> http://linux-hardware.org/ that holds probed information in a
37 >
38 > > please
39 >
40 > >>>>> structured form. You can find, for example, in which computer
41 > >>>>> models is presented some device, what driver was used and how it
42 > >>>>> was configured. You can check for failures in logs related to a
43 > >>>>> problem device and so on.
44 > >>>>>
45 > >>>>> The source code of the tool is available here:
46 >
47 > > stop
48 >
49 > >>>>> https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe
50 > >>>>>
51 > >>>>> Thank you.
52 > >>>>>
53 > If nobody's already started doing the work, one could file a bug on
54 > our tracker and request an ebuild to be written. Or one could read the
55 > devmanual and put one together. If someone is interested in
56 >
57 > > replying
58 >
59 > maintaining that ebuild, one of our proxy-maintainers may be
60 > interested in helping. Check it out some time. :)
61 >
62 > https://bugs.gentoo.org
63 > https://devmanual.gentoo.org
64 >
65 >
66 >>> > > in random positions? >
67
68 No need for trolling. :P
69
70 I like this idea. Having a way to check what drivers were used on a
71 certain make/model will be helpful for me in the future.