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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2012-12-24 19:03:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2012-12-24 19:03:59 +0100 |
| commit | 7871c8e9327e4e5b18de9d8081b0f32fa38c2c1f (patch) | |
| tree | 56dea3f21fcc707ac392696697a50d18c21a09d5 /man/machine-info.xml | |
| parent | f9ea108e7c3544c03822277a1112a48dc62f6ed4 (diff) | |
hostnamed: make chassis type configurable via /etc/machine-info
For many usecases it is useful to store the chassis type somewhere, and
/etc/machine-info sounds like a good place. Ideally we could always
detect the chassis type from firmware, but frequently that's not
available and in many embedded devices probably entirely unrealistic.
This patch adds a configurable setting CHASSIS= to /etc/machine-info and
exposes this via hostnamectl/hostnamed. hostnamed will guess the chassis
type from DMI if nothing is set explicitly. I also added support for
detecting it from ACPI, which should be more useful as ACPI 5.0 actually
knows a "tablet" chassis type, which neither DMI nor previous ACPI
versions knew.
This also enables DMI-based and ACPI-based detection for non-x86 systems
as ACPI is apparently coming to ARM platforms soon.
I tried to minimize the vocabulary of chassis types understood and
added: desktop, laptop, server, tablet, handset. This is much less than
either APCI or DMI know. If we need more types later on we can easily
add them.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/machine-info.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/machine-info.xml | 33 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/machine-info.xml b/man/machine-info.xml index b310d71334..1c3a21c643 100644 --- a/man/machine-info.xml +++ b/man/machine-info.xml @@ -128,6 +128,34 @@ similar icon name.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>CHASSIS=</varname></term> + + <listitem><para>The chassis + type. Currently, the following chassis + types are defined: + <literal>desktop</literal>, + <literal>laptop</literal>, + <literal>server</literal>, + <literal>tablet</literal>, + <literal>handset</literal>, as well as + the special chassis types + <literal>vm</literal> and + <literal>container</literal> for + virtualized systems that lack an + immediate physical chassis. Note that + many systems allow detection of the + chassis type automatically (based on + firmware information or + suchlike). This setting (if set) shall + take precedence over automatically + detected information and is useful to + override misdetected configuration or + to manually configure the chassis type + where automatic detection is not + available.</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + </variablelist> </refsect1> @@ -135,8 +163,9 @@ <refsect1> <title>Example</title> - <programlisting>PRETTY_HOSTNAME="Lennart's Computer" -ICON_NAME=computer-laptop</programlisting> + <programlisting>PRETTY_HOSTNAME="Lennart's Tablet" +ICON_NAME=computer-tablet +CHASSIS=tablet</programlisting> </refsect1> <refsect1> |