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           Summary: improvements to hwinfo (avoiding "unknown", etc.)
    Classification: openSUSE
           Product: openSUSE 11.1
           Version: Final
          Platform: i686
        OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Basesystem
        AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: Ulrich.Windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
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Gecko/20081213 SUSE/1.1.14-1.1 SeaMonkey/1.1.14

Here are some proposals to make the output of "hwinfo" more usable, based on
the output of hwinfo from the rescue system of 11.1 on a new machine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Examine the output of hwinfo

Actual Results:  
Several "unknown" components are reported

Expected Results:  
hwinfo could know a little more about new components.

Many devices have an "unknown" hardware class: FPU, DMA controller (8237), PIC
(8259), Timer (8254), Keyboard controller, PS/2 Controller, Main Memory, SMBus,
Multimedia controller, Serial controller (16550)
A disabled L3 Chache shows many unknown subitems:
  Cache Info: #7
    Designation: "L3-Cache"
    Level: L3
    State: Disabled
    Mode: 0x03 (Unknown)
    Location: 0x00 (Internal, Not Socketed)
    ECC: 0x02 (Unknown)
    Type: 0x02 (Unknown)
    Associativity: 0x02 (Unknown)
    Supported SRAM Types: 0x0002 (Unknown)
    Current SRAM Type: 0x0002 (Unknown)

Many devices are reported with "active=unknown", even the CPUs!
For USB hubs it would be very useful to report the number of ports for the hub,
because computers are good  in counting. There is a "usb.num_ports = 6 (0x6)"
in debug output, but not in final output. ("lsusb" without "-v" also does not
report the number of ports per hub) The kernel also reports the port count:

  <6>hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found
  <6>hub 7-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

  <6>hub 8-0:1.0: USB hub found
  <6>hub 8-0:1.0: 6 ports detected

Finally, this may be an issue of the rescue system only:
  <4>Warning! ehci_hcd should always be loaded before uhci_hcd and ohci_hcd,
not after

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