HW-Probe
Mannshoch opened this issue · 6 comments
Please add HW-Probe to be able to check easy which hardware is currently supported by linux.
Package description
This is a project to collect hardware details of Linux-powered computers over the world and help Linux users and developers to collaboratively debug hardware related issues.
Hardware Probe Tool (HW Probe) — a tool to probe for hardware, check its operability and upload result to the Linux hardware database
Link to home page and sources
- Home page: https://linux-hardware.org
- Source code: https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe
- Examples: https://linux-hardware.org/index.php?view=timeline
Additional information
I simply tried to run hw-probe.pl but it says "hwinfo" is missing.
So, could you explain the purpose of Hardware Probe Tool in Termux ?
It's quite useless for Android devices...
What made it useless in your eyes?
In my opinian it gives a good overview about native supported parts in Kernel, and gives you a collection of Log files. Every buddy should know what part of his device is really native suported by Linux or do only work because of a binary blob.
I'm not familiar with it, but it may could help with the so called device tree you need on ARM. As far I know, this is an importand Data to be able to boot your own system if you wish to replace the original.
I specially executed hw-probe on my Nexus 7. Results here: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=4028344255. It prints some info, but incomplete though.
Okay, re-opening and moving to root repo.
Also requires packages hwinfo and libx86emu (dependency for hwinfo).
Package is available via:
pkg install root-repo
pkg install hw-probe
Hi,
@Mannshoch
Could you please help me to identify hardware model and Android version of probed smartphones? Which files should be collected by hw-probe to identify the smartphone?
Thanks.