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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/hostnamectl.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/hostnamectl.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/hostnamectl.xml | 32 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/hostnamectl.xml b/man/hostnamectl.xml index c36f522c8..a29d2f5b7 100644 --- a/man/hostnamectl.xml +++ b/man/hostnamectl.xml @@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ <para>The static host name is stored in <filename>/etc/hostname</filename>, see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>hostname</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> - for more information. The pretty host name and icon - name are stored in + for more information. The pretty host name, chassis + type and icon name are stored in <filename>/etc/machine-info</filename>, see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para> </refsect1> @@ -198,8 +198,34 @@ Naming Specification</ulink>. Pass an empty string to this operation to reset the icon name to the default + value which is determined from chassis + type (see below) and possibly other + parameters.</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><command>set-chassis [TYPE]</command></term> + + <listitem><para>Set the chassis + type. The chassis type is used by some + graphical applications to visualize + the host or alter user + interaction. 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. Pass an + empty string to this operation to + reset the chassis type to the default value which is determined from the - system form factor and possibly other + firmware and possibly other parameters.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> |