Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 22:17:29 +0000 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?] |
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:32:48PM +0100, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > seeing this thread - is there any serious work being spend on something > like "hinv" on IRIX, which gives you a *complete* listing of your > hardware? I have seen some attempts at shell and perl scripts, but none > of them really is trustworthy.
When devicefs is ready (or more to the point, the drivers become devicefs aware), something to the effect of ls -R /devices should be possible.
If we have ACPI fill out the tree, it enumerates pretty much every device you have in the system, and half dozen you probably didn't know you had.
Dave.
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