Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede(a)hhs.nl) said:
> We (the lm_sensors) project have long had plans to fix 2 and 3 together by
> using dmi BIOS strings to identify the motherboard (circa 80% of
> motherboards have usable id strings, some contain useless strings like "To
> be filled by OEM"), and then have a database with know good configs for
> tried and proven motherboards. We already have a small database of config
> files here:
>
http://lm-sensors.org/wiki/Configurations
>
> And for quite a few of those I have a mailfolder with dmidecode dumps
> providing the strings. There have been several projects already to try to
> get a system like this developed (should be trivial really), but none has
> lifted of, the main problem being lack of time, we really need someone to
> pull the cart on this one. Contributers much welcome!
If you can get the DMI data that describes the layout & modules
needed, why wouldn't you put this in the modules themselves?
Because there are a gazillion motherboards and more manufactured every day. I'm
active as contributer to the kernel part of lm_sensors, and I don't think this
will be received well. Esp since such tables will require lots of maintainance
and thus are best kept in userspace imho.
Regards,
Hans