Fedora Board meeting, 2007-01-16, 10AM EST

[Mike McGrath]

On 1/17/07, Christopher Blizzard <blizzard at redhat.com> wrote:
> Elliot Lee wrote:
> > The biggest headache for me recently has seemed to be hardware support.
> > So far, to get my new storage server working half-decently, I've had to
> > recompile an lm_sensors chip driver with an experimental patch, and
> > download an experimental network driver that works very poorly. I think
> > in the past I underestimated the amount of pain people go through
> > getting their hardware to work. I wonder if there is interest in
> > creating a "Fedora Kernel" sub-project or something, to do things like:
> >     - package up 3rd party drivers
> >     - improve direct communications with driver developers
> >     - create a distributed hardware test grid (participants would
> > download a nightly LiveCD image, boot it on a system with questionable
> > or untested hardware to automatically run a test suite, and report the
> > results back)
>
> Yep.  I've basically been pushing for two big things:
>
> 1. Awesome hardware reporting.  Including statistics on suspend/resume
> rates.  I attended mjg59's talk today about supporting suspend + resume.
>   It was pretty eye opening and I think there are some interesting
> things we could do there.

I've got the hardware profiler (smolt) up and ready for review, we
should be able to add tons to it:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222959

If you come up with a clever way of detecting suspend / resume issues
or successes let me know, we can get it in there.  I'd assume it'd
would go something like "write file, suspend, resume delete file"  "on
boot, look for written file, if it hasn't been deleted then the last
resume failed" ?

         -Mike