Re: hinv (hardware inventory)

Stefan Monnier (monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@TEQUILA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU)
27 Sep 1997 17:34:41 -0400


"Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com> writes:
> Take a look at Red Hat's hwdiag program: see http://www.redhat.com/~msf/

That's pretty cool, but I'm still wondering why noone has tried to "port"
sysinfo to Linux. I know that similar info can be had from /proc and other
such places, but sysinfo has the advantage of providing a somewhat consistent
output across several architectures.

Stefan