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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Travis Place <wishie@wishie.net>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add some system information to	alsa-info.sh output
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:34:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080701093452.GA14666@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1214847360.11032.9.camel@temp-fallen>

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:36:00AM +1000, Travis Place wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 17:42 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > How about bios_vendor, bios_date and bios_version as well?

> How useful is the BIOS information going to be, in most cases ?

Well, ideally most of the time all this information will be useless
since everything will work fine :) .  I'd expect it to be useful
sometimes for handling things like broken information about setup for
HDA codecs.

> > For embedded devices the relevant information is often in /proc/cpuinfo
> > so it might be worth adding that too.

> Can i get an example output or 'cpuinfo' on an embedded device (if you
> have one available) so i can see what im looking for.

The particular output varies with platform and some platforms allow
machine drivers to add entirely custom fields - it's probably safest to
just include the entire file.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-30 16:31 [PATCH] Add some system information to alsa-info.sh output Travis Place
2008-06-30 16:42 ` Mark Brown
2008-06-30 17:36   ` Travis Place
2008-07-01  9:34     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2008-07-01  9:50       ` Takashi Iwai
2008-07-01  9:52         ` Mark Brown
2008-07-01  9:48     ` Takashi Iwai

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