Linux hardware inventory Current reality future possibilities

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The plan. . . 2/33 • Introduction. – Hardware inventory on Linux r○ and AIX r○ . • Are we there yet? – Progress on the Linux lsvpd project so far. • Where to now? • Conclusions, questions, . . .
Current Linux reality 3/33 • Linux has hardware inventory systems such as Red Hat’s kudzu and SuSE’s hwinfo.
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Page 7 and 8: AIX reality 4/33 • Large, mature
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Page 11 and 12: Example of VPD (lsvpd-style) 5/33 *
Page 13 and 14: Are we there yet? 7/33 • General
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Page 17 and 18: Example of PCI VPD 9/33 82 10 00 32
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Page 23 and 24: Requirements #2 (June 2001?) 11/33
Page 25 and 26: SCSI standard inquiry output 12/33
Page 27 and 28: Snazzy SCSI solutions 13/33 • upd
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Page 37 and 38: Perls of wisdom 15/33 • Perl’s
Page 43 and 44: Missing bits • lspci: [...] 241:1
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C & shell (no seashores. . . ) 19/3
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Updating update-device-tree 20/33
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Rendering SCSI VPD 22/33 • Obviou
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Rendering SCSI VPD 22/33 • Obviou
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Enter lscfg • ‘Human readable
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Cross platforms? 24/33 • This cou
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Cross platforms? 24/33 • This cou
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Requirements #4 (February 2003) 26/
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Testing times (summary) • lscfg u
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Goodbye glib! 28/33 • The root-fi
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Cross platforms with sysfs 29/33
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Cross platforms with sysfs 29/33
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Self-selecting modules • Modulari
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Future possibilities 31/33 • PCI
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Conclusions 32/33 • Started as a
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Conclusions 32/33 • Started as a
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Questions? 33/33 ? Legal Statement
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