<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa" <gustavo.pedrosa@eldorado.org.br><br><b>To: </b>arch@ovirt.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, July 15, 2013 3:55:25 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Question about hardware system information<br><div><br></div><style><!--
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hello,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The VDSM uses Dmidecode to retrieve the information that will be used in the method VdsBrokerObjectsBuilder.UpdateHardwareSystemInformation().</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The IBM POWER architecture does not have the information from the Dmidecode, however, it has other information.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In the case of new information for IBM POWER architecture, there are two options: (1) add new columns in the method VdsDAODbFacadeImpl.mapRow() and in the database, or (2) map the new set of information into a single
column (using, for example, JSON).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">What would be the best option? And in case of a future new architecture?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regards,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Gustavo F Temple Pedrosa.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>Hi,</div><div>Doesn't it effect API and UI as well? (present different info) ?</div><div><br></div></div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><br>_______________________________________________<br>Arch mailing list<br>Arch@ovirt.org<br>http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/arch<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></body></html>