Osvaldo Filho wrote:
How do I get information about the hardware in Linux and Windows? - Identification of the processor: model, manufacturer, serial number
That depends very much on the type of the processor, i.e. whether it's x86, ARM and so on. On x86 the info is available from processor registers, on Linux you can use /proc/cpuinfo (noting that the format of this depends on processor type and the whim of the kernel developers).
- Identification of Hard Disk: model, manufacturer, physical serial number
With difficulty on Linux. I see that somebody has suggested dmesg|grep but that won't be reliable if something's trickling messages into the kernel buffer that eventually flush out the boot stuff.
- Identification of Memory: model, manufacturer, size, type
In general depends on the chipset. To get this info reliably you need to access the serial bus that runs to each DIMM to get its parameters, and then you need to know how to decode them.
- Identification of Motherboard: model, manufacturer
With extreme difficulty. On Linux there might possibly be info in /proc/acpi, /proc/openprom etc. but again it depends very much on the architecture, kernel version and so on. A good place to start is looking at lspci or /proc/bus/pci, you should find that most models of computer have a distinct arrangement of devices and with modest expenditure of effort you should be able to characterise each one :-)
Again, there's a whole lot of stuff that you can get by parsing dmesg output on Linux. However that's basically debugging info from the kernel as it starts and if it's not also presented in /proc, /sys or /dev then it might only be available for a limited time.
Sorry I can't say more about Windows, Solaris, or the other OSes that FPC supports.
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