[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Control Panel "About my Computer": show information on XO 1.75 OLPC #11232

[Simon Schampijer]

On 10/01/2011 01:32 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Excerpts from Paul Fox's message of 2011-09-29 14:38:35 +0200:
>
>> yes, it would be much better to centralize this -- we'll certainly be
>> going through this again in the future.  please use olpc-hwinfo from
>> sugar, if possible.
>
> Since we're talking about a few lines of code only, I'd prefer the code
> duplication over having to depend on a vendor package. Especially since
> device tree is cross-platform (in the hardware sense), so the same code
> would work on more than just XOs.
>
> Sascha

Thanks for all the comments!

After another discussion with Daniel I made the patch hardware 
independent [1].

"As the firmware version we display the bios version if available on non 
XO hardware. As ethtool has become a depedency of Sugar we can now
display the wireless firmware as well on all hardwares.

The serial number is often only readable by root on non-XO
hardware. If the serial number can not be found on an XO we hide
that part of the section."

For the future I think we can enhance the section. For example I think 
it makes sense to display the wireless driver (e.g. iwl3945) as well 
when displaying the wireless firmware version. As well it would be nice 
to display the model in the identity section. This can be done hardware 
independent as well with the usage of /sys/class/dmi/id/product_version 
and /sys/class/dmi/id/product_name (see [2]).

Regards,
    Simon

[1] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-October/033714.html
[2] http://dev.laptop.org/attachment/ticket/11232/11232-fix.png