From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 4 13:17:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E89D16A4E0 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:17:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C45543D49 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:17:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1D0D291AFC; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:17:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24969-04; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:17:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F0E5290C6D; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:17:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 5D1335CC08; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:17:16 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E3D5CBC5; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:17:16 -0300 (ADT) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:17:16 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd To: Matthew Seaman In-Reply-To: <44D3262B.2000400@infracaninophile.co.uk> Message-ID: <20060804101513.R25268@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060803180553.B6529@ganymede.hub.org> <200608040314.k743EBK6050609@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <44D3262B.2000400@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Olivier Nicole , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:17:11 -0000 On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: > This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI > devices? pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs are in the > system or even how many there are. It doesn't tell you exactly what > sort of memory or disk drives the system uses -- all of which would be > important information that might just persuade hardware manufacturers to > provide more FreeBSD support. Surely a condensed version of > /var/run/dmesg.boot is more to the point. /var/run/dmesg.boot can't be relied on, unfortunately ... I've had *many* times where a reboot leaves that blank, or with "non-dmesg like" output ... if you can provide a non-dmesg method of adding this information that is consistent (ie. pciconf), then sure, we can add this sort of information ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664