Re: [H-source-users] new version of h-source uploaded to h-node.org

[John Sullivan]

Antonio Gallo <address@hidden> writes:

> f hardware
>> 
>> I see no difference between motherboards and laptops
>> here.  How will
>> motherboards be identified?  I believe lindi discussed
>> it for laptops
>> (which are most difficult devices to report and aren't
>> supported in
>> h-client).
>> 
>
> When we discussed about motherboards inside this list, we have
> concluded that the easiest way would be to simply add a subtype (for
> motherboars) inside the notebooks category. We had also concluded to
> add new fields for integrated devices such as ethernet, soundcard and
> so on (the same as we have done for integrated video card, wifi,...).
> Those fields could be ok for notebooks as well as for motherboards.
> We had also decided to add a new field to ask if the motherboard requires
> proprietary CPU microcode/firmware for support.
>
> I think we could go on following this way. What do you think?
>

Will users be able to look up specific laptop models this way though? I
think it is important to list individual components but also specific
laptop models.

-john

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