Define what to report in compatibles for non arm devices

[helen-fornazier]

We need to think about what to report on compatible for x86, otherwise we get hardware unknown https://staging.dashboard.kernelci.org:9000/tree/6fb2fa9805c501d9ade047fc511961f3273cdcb5/test[…]3A%226fb2fa9805c501d9ade047fc511961f3273cdcb5%22%7D
and it is hard to understand from the main page which are the boards that are failing to boot
example: https://staging.dashboard.kernelci.org:9000/tree/6fb2fa9805c501d9ade047fc511961f3273cdcb5?tabl[…]3A%226fb2fa9805c501d9ade047fc511961f3273cdcb5%22%7D

cc @nuclearcat @spbnick @JenySadadia @padovan

[spbnick]

Yes, and it cannot be the compatible field. The best I found so far is getting the ACPI info. Check out what you can see under /sys/class/dmi/id/ - I think it's a good candidate.

[helen-fornazier]

$ ls -1 /sys/class/dmi/id/                                                                                   (base) 
bios_date
bios_release
bios_vendor
bios_version
board_asset_tag
board_name
board_serial
board_vendor
board_version
chassis_asset_tag
chassis_serial
chassis_type
chassis_vendor
chassis_version
modalias
power/
product_family
product_name
product_serial
product_sku
product_uuid
product_version
subsystem@
sys_vendor
uevent

Maybe we could have a composition of a few of those?

[spbnick]

Yeah, we can pick a bunch of files we like and convert them into correspondingly-named fields under tests[<id>].environment.dmi. We can start with these, for example:

• sys_vendor
• board_vendor
• board_name
• product_family
• product_name
• product_version

[spbnick]

If it's possible that /sys/class/dmi/id/ is not there for whatever reason, then dmidecode can do a similar job.

[spbnick]

Ideally, retrieval of this info should be done on the machine before test execution, but prefilling Maestro HW database with these would also work, similar to how you set compatible.

[spbnick]

@helen-fornazier, @nuclearcat, the sooner we agree on a plan, the sooner I can start writing the schema and the proposal, and working on the implementation. It's obvious, of course, just wanted to let you know, that I'm waiting on you 😁