On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:34:54 +1100, Marek Wawrzyczny said: > > > And then there's stuff on this machine that are *not* options, but don't > > matter to me. I see an 'O2 Micro' Firewire in the 'lspci' output. I have > > no idea how well it works. I don't care what it contributes to the score. > > On the other hand, somebody who uses external Firewire disk enclosures may > > be *very* concerned about it, but not care in the slightest about the > > wireless card. > > Perhaps we just report on the individual devices then... forget the system > rating.
OK, *that* I see as potentially useful - I frequently get handed older boxen with strange gear in them, and need a way to figure out if I want to install software, or cannibalize it for parts. Also helpful if a buddy has a Frankintel box they build, and they want to know if they can install something other than Windows.... Bonus points if it sees a card that has a known out-of-tree driver and tells you where to find it and what its license status is (I just went down that road with an Intel 3945)... > > Bonus points for figuring out what to do with systems that have some chip > > that's a supported XYZ driver, but wired up behind a squirrely bridge with > > some totally bizarre IRQ allocation, so you end up with something that's > > visible on lspci but not actually *usable* in any real sense of the term... > > Hmmm... does this happen often? False results are definedly a show stopper. Oh, we see reports of squirrelly or downright confused hardware all the time on this list. :)
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