A year or so ago, as part of selecting a notebook to buy, I gathered
dmesg info from all of the notebooks I could find in local stores
(booting from and saving data to a USB stick) and sent it to
dm...@openbsd.org as well as using it myself. Since I expect that it
would be useful to the developers to have this info for the current crop
of notebooks, I plan to do another data-gathering session sometime in
the next few weeks. I'll be using an amd64 snapshot and, as FAQ 4.10
requests, will gather both 'dmesg' and 'sysctl hw.sensors' output using
both the sp and mp kernels for each system.
Since the data collection will be scripted it will be easy to also
gather other information; pcidump, usbdevs and acpidump come to mind.
What would be useful for the developers? I've got a store which has
several dozen demo notebooks and will let me gather data from them, but
there won't be an opportunity to go back -- I need to get all of the
useful info at once.
So, my questions to the developers:
1) Does it matter which amd64 snapshot I use? Are there any recent or
forthcoming ones which are especially good or bad for this purpose?
2) What additional information should I collect? Exact commands and
options, please. I don't mind installing tools which aren't in base,
but the output needs to go to, or be able to be redirected to, a file.
3) Other than the dmesg/sensor info which will go to dm...@openbsd.org,
where should I send the additional info? If there's no suitable place,
I can just keep it around and let anyone who needs it ask me for it.
Dave
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Dave Anderson
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