Linux hardware inventory Current reality future possibilities

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Requirements #3 (June 2002) 18/33 • ‘Perl isn’t around early enough at boot time!’ • Find ibm,vpd properties in the Open Firmware device-tree and pretty print them. Also print information about SCSI devices. Use programming languages that are supported with just a root filesystem. • Time required: a few weeks.
C & shell (no seashores. . . ) 19/33 • Scripting languages are good. . .
Page 1 and 2: AUUG 2003 Conference Open Standards
Page 3 and 4: Current Linux reality 3/33 • Linu
Page 5 and 6: Current Linux reality 3/33 • Linu
Page 7 and 8: AIX reality 4/33 • Large, mature
Page 9 and 10: AIX reality 4/33 • Large, mature
Page 11 and 12: Example of VPD (lsvpd-style) 5/33 *
Page 13 and 14: Are we there yet? 7/33 • General
Page 15 and 16: Are we there yet? 7/33 • General
Page 17 and 18: Example of PCI VPD 9/33 82 10 00 32
Page 19 and 20: This should take a few hours 10/33
Page 21 and 22: This should take a few hours 10/33
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
Page 35 and 36: SCSI standard inquiry output 14/33
Page 37 and 38: Perls of wisdom 15/33 • Perl’s
Page 43 and 44: Missing bits • lspci: [...] 241:1
Page 45 and 46: More Perls of wisdom 17/33 • In J
Page 51: Requirements #3 (June 2002) 18/33
Page 55 and 56: C & shell (no seashores. . . ) 19/3
Page 57 and 58: C & shell (no seashores. . . ) 19/3
Page 59 and 60: Updating update-device-tree 20/33
Page 65 and 66: Rendering SCSI VPD 22/33 • Obviou
Page 67 and 68: Rendering SCSI VPD 22/33 • Obviou
Page 69 and 70: Enter lscfg • ‘Human readable
Page 71 and 72: Cross platforms? 24/33 • This cou
Page 73 and 74: Cross platforms? 24/33 • This cou
Page 75 and 76: Requirements #4 (February 2003) 26/
Page 77 and 78: Testing times (summary) • lscfg u
Page 83 and 84: Goodbye glib! 28/33 • The root-fi
Page 89 and 90: Cross platforms with sysfs 29/33
Page 91 and 92: Cross platforms with sysfs 29/33
Page 93 and 94: Self-selecting modules • Modulari
Page 95 and 96: 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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