Re: Bug#1032137: ITP: python-hardware -- hardware detection and classification utilities

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 3/1/23 17:20, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> On 2023-02-28 15:18:33, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > * Package name    : python-hardware
> >    Description     : hardware detection and classification utilities
> >
> >   Detect hardware features of a Linux systems:
> >    * RAID
> >    * hard drives
> >    * IPMI
> >    * network cards
> >    * DMI infos
> >    * memory settings
> >    * processor features
> >   .
> >   Filter hardware according to hardware profiles.
>
> Oh, this is interesting! There's very little documentation on the
> upstream site, what do you plan on using this for?
>
> It looks like a library I could very well use to rewrite stressant
> into something more sane... It seems it even has benchmarks...
>
> Thanks for any clarification!

Hi,

FYI, that's a dependency of ironic-python-agent [1], which does hardware 
discovery and image install for Ironic. I've just uploaded both packages 
and I intend to deploy my first Ironic-enabled cloud soonish. :)

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

[1] https://opendev.org/openstack/ironic-python-agent