Trading off safety and performance in the kernel

Posted May 14, 2015 21:29 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (guest, #2285)
In reply to: Trading off safety and performance in the kernel by pizza
Parent article: Trading off safety and performance in the kernel

> Aside from on-die CPU sensors, there is no such thing as "common hardware" when it comes to sensors.

Somebody should -- I know that means that I should do it but no time and not enough interest -- should build a CDDB type system for Linux hardware so that for each machine type it is enough for ONE person to label everything in the system. Sensors, audio ports, etc.

Then on system setup the distro could look up all of that stuff.

Trading off safety and performance in the kernel

Posted May 14, 2015 23:34 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

good luck. How are you going to reliably identify what system you are running on? With some vendors even the exact model number isn't enough because they change the internals without changing the model number

Trading off safety and performance in the kernel

Posted May 15, 2015 4:33 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

CDDB is not 100% reliable but it's useful and popular anyway.

At the start it was very incomplete yet it became popular very quickly. Same as many other crowd-sourced services.