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Bug fix, it's a bad edid data bug, rare, but when it trips, kills inxi execution
dead right before -G/Graphics shows. Also some nice fixes and enhancements. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. Possible case of Gnome Wayland failing to set any gnome environmental variables, making wayland detection not possible. This was in anonymous dataset inxi-proBook4540s dataset. Person never appeared in real life so can't follow up on it. This cascaded down to other failures in display detection, and desktop detection, though in theory much of the data needed was present. I expect similar issues may appear with kde wayland. This is/was probably a configuration or build error I believe, though not enough data yet. It appears that sudo start disabled the display environmental variable detections, which is unfortunate, and the fallback loginctl tests do not appear to work for unknown reasons. I've confirmed this on Fedora stock Gnome as well. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Forgot to test that return from get_display_manager is array ref, this impacts only a tiny handful of distros probably, TinyCore was one, but it is a fatal failure, so fixed it. Also fixed in 3.3.14 inxi branch. Never trips in console, only on tiny linux where no dm is used at all, I think Xvesa might be the only case this would have tripped. 2. EDID errors and warnings had several bugs, errors a fatal critical bug which made execution stop. Had forgotten to pass the $edid hash reference to the error constructor. Also had used wrong hash key in output so would never have shown. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Corrected ram device indentation levels. 2. Made memory width more clear with: width: data: total: which more accurately reflects the source data. Also in cases where no data or total values, only show width: N/A, not the data: total: sub items. 3. Made edid errors/warnings output to numbered list of warnings/errors instead of using join() to made one long list. Much more consistent that way. This fixes issue #266 - thanks SheridanOAI for finding this bug. 4. In --slots, -x wasn't loading the bus ID so it showed N/A, unnecessary data collection granularity, removed. 5. For Display, if no X or gpu driver, show: driver: N/A. Showed driver: gpu: N/A before. 6. For Display, remove filters for Xwayland tests, we always want to see xwayland data if it's installed. This was actually an error to not show it since display_server_data already had the correct tests to not redo Xorg data if found previously, which would be glxinfo based data. This is a partial fix also for Known Issue 1, at least we'll see Xwayland is present even if Wayland detections failed for unkonwn reasons. 7. Added some ram value dmi filters, found some that had 'none' or 'unknown'. 8. Show display protocol out of display!! Also handles most common root use cases as well, so in most cases, if the initial protocol detections failed, this will result in a decent attempt, though if root it is less reliable. sudo or regular user will be fine since looks for not tty/pts TTY type and username. This should also help narrow down Known Issue 1 failures, though there are more cases to be dealt with, but can only chip away since not enough data. 9. Made info: item in slots more robust, and able to handle more diverse scenarios. 10. Added alternate syntaxes for dmidecode permissions errors. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Added brzdm clogin mlogind xlogin display managers. Not verified. Version for brzdm is probably like slim since brzdm is a fork of slim. 2. Added voltages to ram module report, that had been left out. Note that it's common for voltages to be either 'unknown' or not present at all. This is as close as inxi can get to handling issue #265 since there is no other source for the requested data type (show DDR3L, low voltage DDR3, which doesn't exist as a type in dmidecode). 3. Added voltages to --slots report, --slots -xx. Only shows if present. 4. Added for --slots -a for Linux, if detected, the PCI children of the bus ID of the slot. This is recursive, so supports as many levels as are present, though it would be rare for there to be more than one level of children. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. In -m ram report, moved ram type before size/speed/voltage, that makes more sense. 2. Also in -m ram report, make type: the default value (was an -x options before), which contains the no module found messages etc, making the order: Device-1: DIMM 0 type: no module installed Device-2: DIMM 1 type: DDR4 size: 16 GiB speed: 2400 MT/s This puts all the speed/size/voltage data together, and stops putting the no module found message in speed, which never made any sense. 2. In -m, changed width data to more clearly reflect the data source: width (bits): data: 64 total: 72 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Man page, added a TABLE OF CONTENTS section which lists all the primary sections. Can help since the man page has gotten so darned long and man doesn't as far as I know support clickable internal links, sadly. 2. For -m, updated for revised output syntax and -x levels. Note that the help and man actually had the type: as default for -m, not -mx, but for some reason, the code had it wrong. Oops. 3. For -m, fixed some legacy output syntax in the examples. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Some refactors of slots, ram, as well as a bit more refactoring of edid stuff for graphics. 2. Added $ENV{'DISPLAY'} to debugger data collector, no idea why that was left out. |
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New version, man. Continuing development of EDID and monitor features, bug
fixes, normal fixes.
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KNOWN ISSUES:
1. Failed to handle case for monitor positions of array type: 2-2, 3-1, 1-3,
4-4. I'm not sure what structure those are really arranged in, but might be
worth adding in the x+y pos values along with the row-col values.
2. For Monitors and graphics Device ports, if using non free nvidia driver and:
nvidia-drm.modeset=1 not set in grub kernel boot parameters, there will be no
/sys/class/drm data for the nvidia device, and thus no ports data, and no
monitor data.
3. A class of high count DP or DVI port IDs are changed by Xorg drivers to for
example: DP-6 > DP-2-3. This is very difficult to handle and will in general
probably fail unfortunately because that level of port ID abstraction is just
reazlly hard to deal with dynamically.
4. A to-do item: add bus ID children on --slots. This will probablby be in next
inxi.
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BUGS:
1. None outside of the various fixes.
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FIXES:
1. In sensors, failed to pull out BAT sensor data. In most cases, this would not
lead to any issues, but it could have.
2. This one just slipped my mind, I'd meant to do it, but in Montitor-x:, the
primary ID should have been the 'real' kernel ID, not the mapped: ID, which is
the X.org ID when different from the kernel ID. So mapped should be the Xorg
version when they are different from the kernel version.
3. In Graphics, monitors can show > 1 ratio, failed to set all to :, resulting
in: ratio: 3:2 or 16/10 modes:. Also fixed ParseEDID to output an array of
ratios, which can then be processed as wanted.
4. Monitor map fixes:
* Handle case in monitors where display ID: eDP and sys ID: eDP-1, this only
works if 1 monitor in array. There's a variety of this type of failure, when
X.org or its drivers decide to call the port ID XYZ with no number at all. All
those possible cases are now handled, like eDP > eDP-1, VGA > VGA-1, and so on.
* Added fallback, if no match, and if only 1 monitor, just map them to eachother
if other mappings failed. Prompted by things like: s: DP-6 > d: DP-2-3;
s: eDP-1 > d: DP-4, which are just impossible to create logic to map.
5. Removed 'ati' driver from xorg drivers list, it's simply a wrapper for r128,
mach64, or radeon (and maybe amdgpu), and shows as failed, unloaded, or loaded,
because of this. ati basically assigns the correct driver, that is, but is not
itself a driver. Thanks mrmazda for spotting this issue.
6. Typo on QDI => Quantum Data.
7. Added fallback for monitor model, now using vendor code plus product code
if nothing found for vendor nice name or model. This will show as 'model-id:'
instead of model: to help differentiate the two.
8. Added Monitor product_code to manufacturer if no model name is found.
9. get_pci_vendor was trimming at ' / ' if the product string also contained
' / '. Fix is to ignore 1 character 'words' in the logic.
10. In Slots, failed to remove_duplicates in the slot info field, leading to
redundant output strings. See Enhancement 3 and Code 4.
11. See Change 3, finally made -S section use full key: value pair, which makes
stuff more explicit, like:
System:
Host: yawn
Kernel: 5.16.0-11.1-liquorix-amd64
arch: x86_64
bits: 64
compiler: gcc
v: 11.2.0
Desktop: Xfce
v: 4.16.0
tk: Gtk
v: 3.24.24
info: xfce4-panel
wm: xfwm
v: 4.16.1
vt: 7
dm:
1: LightDM
v: 1.26.0
2: SDDM
note: stopped
Distro: Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid
12. Fix for mageia and lsb distro data, force use of os-release for mageia if
detected. That overrides the forced use of lsb release for mandrake/mandriva,
because for some reason mageia has decided to carry ALL the legacy distro files:
'/etc/lsb-release',
'/etc/lsb-release.d',
'/etc/mageia-release',
'/etc/mandrake-release',
'/etc/mandrakelinux-release',
'/etc/mandriva-release',
'/etc/os-release',
'/etc/redhat-release',
'/etc/system-release'
which is really not what this stuff is intended for, if it's an actual derived
distro from a living base, then yes, include the base file, but all these have
the same distro id data for mageia, none for the derived distros.
Also, fixed an lsb release thing to avoid using codename if codename contains
release number as well. Since lsb_release is totally legacy at this point, who
cares if we might miss a specific codename here and there on legacy system.
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ENHANCEMENTS:
1. Added Color Characteristics to EDID parser, for some reason that had been
left out.
2. Added advanced EDID output option --edid, that allows for showing more
advanced EDID data than is appropriate for most users cases. Ihcludes errors,
color characteristics chroma: (chromacity), full modes, not just min/max.
3. In --slots, added bus-ID.
Also extended report quality, made more granular, got rid of single blob from
Type and Designation and now get more accurate and useful data.
4. In cases with > 1 DM, check to see if one or more are stopped or disabled, =
and add (stopped) if it was detected in running service as stopped.
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CHANGES:
1. Reversed monitor ID and mapped: ID values, that was a mistake, the mapped:
item was supposed to contain the X.org mapped name, and the primary ID was
supposed to be the actual real ID the kernel uses. Not a huge deal either way,
but there it is.
2. Include disabled but connected Monitors. This works around nvidia bug showing
monitors disabled when they are enabled, but also allows for showing connected
monitors, though without as much data.
3. Made the last holdout -S > -Sa use strict full key: value pair output, like
Desktop: XFCE v: 4.14.12 and so on.
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DOCUMENTATION:
1. Added help/man for --edid info.
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CODE:
1. In ParseEDID: made new key: edid_error, which contains an array ref of 1 or
more edid errors. The previous version did a poor job and returned only the
first error found, so there could have been > 1 error, and you'd never know it.
This changes check_parsed_edid to _check_parsed_edid(). and adds a utility tool
_edid_error, which grabs the message from main::message, giving better output
integration.
This also allows for future error handling expansion quite easily.
2. In map_monitor_ids() fixed matching pattern, made more robust and explicit,
to catch things like s: eDP-1 d: eDP or eDP-1-1, both have been seen. Also added
fallback for single monitor, just map them to eachother if mapping failed.
3. get_pci_vendor() added test for using anything that is 1 character length,
to not break on 1 character length string matches.
4. Fully refactored --slots, that was originally written purely as a proof of
concept in terms of adding a new feature during the original inxi 2.9 rewrite,
and was never actually touched after that.
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Just as 3.3.10 > 3.3.11 were a huge set of CPU upgrades, including significant
internal refactors, so too is 3.3.13 a significant Graphics upgrade, featuring
significant upgrades to Wayland (and Xvesa/TinyX!) support, and allowing for
much more granular output controls. The legacy -Ga showing
Display/Screen/Monitors is now split apart, and can now work for some features
in and out of display.
This upgrade should be of significant interest to any Wayland using distro, as
well as the tiny Xvesa based distros like TinyCore, Slitaz, and Puppy.
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NOTE TO MAINTAINERS AND PACKAGERS:
If you had Cpanel::JSON::XS or JSON::XS Perl modules as dependencies, you can
remove those, inxi now can use JSON::PP, which is in Core Modules since Perl
5.14 (unless for some reason your distro removed that module from Core Modules).
Basically inxi will simply look for whichever of the 3 is installed, and use
that one.
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KNOWN ISSUES:
1. The free drivers for xorg like amdgpu, modesetting, alter the the internal
kernel IDs for monitors/gfx device ports, which is somewhat bizarre since the
ideal role of any ID is to be an identifier that always works. Due to this
situation, inxi has to map the kernel ids to the x driver monitor IDs in order
to show the advanced monitor data, like model: mapped: and modes:. This may not
always work as expected since if the mapping fails, the data will fail to match
to the monitors. While not enough data is in to make any conclusions, hoping
that this issue does not exist on Wayland compositors.
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BUGS:
1. Not sure if this was a bug, but I believe RAM vendor ID matches would never
have generated results, and might have generated errors. That's corrected as
part of Code fix 1.
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FIXES:
1. Tiny indentation level issue, for -Ga, Monitor was not set to be a container
for its data. This would only impact -y 1 or json and xml output cases, and would
be subtle, but it was an oversight.
2. Small fix for monitor dimensions, failed to switch the mm dimensions for
monitors placed in a vertical, portait mode, instead of standard landscape mode.
Now switches mm x and y if that is detected, which corrects dpi as well.
3. For Xvesa:
* Show vesa as display driver, Xvesa == vesa, dugh,lol.
* Show better Interface and Screen resolution data missing messages.
* See FIX 5 for adding in display-ID:.
* Show TinX Xvesa string for server data, not just Xvesa.
4. For Wayland, which currently has no EGL support in inxi, if no glxinfo
present, show EGL Wayland specific Messsage: for advanced EGL data, not the
generic glxinfo that were shown previously.
5. Display was relying on xdpyinfo or a Wayland environmental variable to set
display-ID:, now falls back always to $ENV{DISPLAY} if nothing else was found
and that exists. I hadn't realized how much was depending on those x tools,
which many people never had installed in the first place. This also supplies
that for Xvesa as well, which has features that need the Display-ID to use.
6. Intel family 6, model 17h, supposed to be yorkfield, was penryn, fixed.
7. Small fix for remove_duplicates, it was not case insensitive so missed things
like DELL Dell in strings.
8. Failed to detect or get Xfree86 X server version number.
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ENHANCEMENTS:
1. Extensive Graphics Upgrades:
* -Gxx Devices: For some gpus / drivers, show vram total and used for -Gxx.
amdgpu supports this, I believe it's the only one, but don't know for sure.
* -Gxx Devices: (Linux only): Show active, off (connected but disabled, like a
closed laptop screen with attached moniitor), and empty ports on devices. Not
tested for USB yet.
* -Gxx Devices: Show device ports (like VGA-1, DVI-I-1, HDMI-A-1), active, off
(off is connected but disabled) and empty (linux only).
* -G Display/Screen: Removed strict dependency on xdpyinfo to show advanced xorg
screen and display data. Now it will show most of the data if xrandr is
available, and all if xrandr and xdpyinfo are installed. More granular error
messages as well.
* -G Wayland Display: new type, d-rect: for > 1 monitor Wayland display layouts.
Works roughly the same as Screen: s-res: does, except since Wayland has no
'Screen' concept, that goes into Display. This is sort of a rough algo,
basically it takes either the dimensions of the total of x and y resolutions, or
the greatest x or y resolution found for any monitor, whichever is greater, and
uses that to create the display rectangle resolution composite value.
* -G Display, Monitors: Extended display tool options from just xrandr to
swaymsg, wlr-xrandr, weston-info, wayland-info. Still nothing on kwin_wayland or
gnome-shell and mutter data.
*. -S, -G: compositors, full redo of list, now supported:
asc awc cage cagebreak cardboard chameleonwm clayland comfc dwc dwl epd-wm
fireplace feathers fenestra glass gamescope greenfield grefson hikari hopalong
inaban japokwm kiwmi kwinft labwc laikawm lipstick liri mahogany marina maze
motorcar newm nucleus orbital perceptia phoc pywm qtile river rustland simulavr
skylight sommelier sway swc swvkc tabby taiwins tinybox tinywl trinkster velox
vimway vivarium wavy waybox way-cooler wayfire wayhouse waymonad westeros
westford weston wio+ wio wxrc wxrd xuake
* -G Enhanced Interfaces/GL item, previously only type OpenGL forX, now has:
* X - OpenGL, requires glxinfo , same as before.
* Wayland - EGL, currently no tool available, stub in place. Allegedly this
data can be found but have no idea how or if a tool does that yet
* Xvesa - Interface: interface type (VBE/GOP). GOP not confirmed, no data
samples; v:, source:, dac: (no idea what it is, show it though), controller:,
and ram: items.
This is based on TinyX/Xvesa as found in TinyCore, but should work in Slitaz
and Puppy TinyX as well if those projects are still around.
* -G Display/Screen/Monitor data: Created structures and abstractions that allow
for Wayland/Xorg/Xvesa data, most new features will work with any of these. Or
Arcan, if that actually makes it, and we get data for it. We'll wait on Arcan,
heh.
* -G Display server: For Xvesa, added type TinyX to server if detected. Added
Xwayland, which was not handled previously. For Xwayland, if wayland running,
and if Xorg also installed, shows:
server: X.org
v: 1.20.14
with: Xwayland
v: 21.01
Otherwise shows:
server: Xwayland
v: 21.01
* -G Compositors: fixed a long standing weak spot, if > 1 compositor detected
running, not common, but could happen, shows all detected compositors.
Display: x11
server: X.Org
v: 1.20.13
compositors:
1: Mutter
v: 41.1
2: xfwm
v: 4.16.1
driver:
X:
loaded: modesetting
gpu: radeon
* -G drivers: now shows if X or gpu driver, in each its own section. This makes
it more obvious what is going on:
Display: x11
server: X.Org
v: 1.20.13
driver:
X:
loaded: modesetting
gpu: radeon
resolution:
* -Gxx Monitors: Show primary monitor with pos: primary,right. Uses either
xrandr 'primary' value, or if no 'primary' found in an Xorg Screen, uses +0+0
positioned monitor. Position is based on the row and column number in the
rectangular grid of monitors when monitors per Xorg Screen are > 1.
For most common multi-monitor layouts, text positions are used, which are in
general more clear and easy to understand than their internal numeric
counterparts, that is, unless the layout is too complicated, it will show left,
or top-left, instead of 1-1, and so on.
Text mode positions are available for the following grid styles currently: 1x2,
1x3, 1x4, 2x1, 2x2, 2x3, 3x1, 3x2, 3x3. 'top' means the top row if > 1 row,
'bottom' means the bottom row, 'middle' is the middle row if 3 rows, 'left' is
the first column, 'right' the last, 'center' if 3 columns, and 'center-l' (1-2),
'center-r' (1-3) are the 2 center columns if 4 columns. 'bottom-l', 'bottom-c',
'bottom-r'; 'middle-l', 'middle-c', 'middle-r'; 'top-left', 'top-center',
'top-right' complete the possible values.
If the grid of monitors is greater than the supported rows or columns, it will
switch to numeric row-column mode, with column-row numbering starting at 1-1,
top left.
* -Gxx Monitors: show (if detected, Linux only) monitor model, and if the
display ID (from Xorg or Wayland) is different from the /sys monitor ID, show
mapped: to show the /sys id.
* -Gxxx Monitors: show modes: max: XxY min: XxY, or mode: XxY (if only 1 mode
found). Shows hz:
* -Ga Monitors: shows serial, built year, gamma, ratio, if detected.
2. Added impish 21-10 and jammy 22-04 to ubuntu id. That's for Mint base ID. Not
huge point in updating if Mint doesn't update inxi, but there it is.
3. For -Axx, -Exx, -Gxx, -Nxx, shows PCIe speed and lanes. With -a, shows max
speed / lanes if different than current speeds/lanes. Note that for unknown
reasons not all devices in a PCIe slot show this data.
4. -Ixx: terminals added: foot, ate
5. -Sxx: login/display managers added: emptty, greetd, qingy, tbsm. See CODE 5
for more info on how this change was done.
6. -Sxxx: status/dock/panel bars added: i3-status-rs, luastatus, nwg-bar,
nwg-dock, nwg-panel, rootbar, sfwbar, wapanel, waybar, yambar
7. Added a Tyan board IPMI sensor data set.
8. Added support for fruid_print for Elbrus -M Machine data. Those boards don't
have dmi tables, but do ship with Elbrus OS which has fruid_print.
9. More disk vendors! Yes, you know the drill, the world turns, and with every
turn, a flock of new vendors appears, like baby rabbits emerging from their
warren, endlessly, a stream that is the life essence itself... or something.
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CHANGES:
1. When xdpyinfo is not installed, user will still see advanced -Ga Monitor and
Screen data as long as xrandr at least is installed. Better error messages as
well now to explain which tool or tools missing caused the missing data.
2. -Gxx will show basic Screen and Monitors, id, mapped, pos:, model, res, dpi,
diag; -Gxxx adds Monitor modes; --Ga adds screen/monitor size, Screen diag.
3. -ba/-v2 no longer show the full screens/monitor report, now it remains basic
mode output, which it should have always done, unless -G is also explicitly
added.
4. Split apart x-server version to v:, which should always have been the case.
5. Xvesa and Wayland no longer show glxinfo messages for no glxinfo for GL data.
Now they show their own custom messages, appropriate to the case.
6. json features now test for JSON::PP, JSON::XS, or Cpanel::JSON::XS modules,
and use whichever is found. Note I did not realize JSON::PP was in core modules
as of 5.14 so that makes sense to use, and will allow inxi to start using json
data sources, which are a lot easier to parse.
7. Changed -G drivers to show subsections for X and gpu drivers, and updated
missing driver messages to account for this change. X drivers now show the sub
sets of loaded/unloaded/failed/alternate, and gpu shows active gpu drivers,
assuming such are detected.
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DOCUMENTATION:
1. Help and man page updates for -G Display/Screen/Monitor changes. Redid -G,
-Gx, -Gxx, -Gxxx, -Ga. Added monitor layout position feature.
2. Updated -Ga for xrandr/xdpyinfo changes.
3. Updated --recommends to more accurately show function of xdpyinfo and xrandr
for -G and -Ga.
4. Reorganized and added complete table of contents to docs/inxi-data.txt
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CODE:
1. Slightly optimized use of array loads on disk_vendor() and ram_vendor() based
on how it's now done for monitor layouts, which is more efficient, use a scalar
to hold a reference to the array, that avoids having the array ever exist in
more than 1 place. Part of the ongoing process of avoiding extra hash and array
copies globally.
2. Moved to consistent undef behaviors.
* For lists of variables use () to undefine, changed all of the the following:
1. (@a,$b,$c,%d) = (undef,undef,undef,undef);
2. (@a,$b,$c,%d) = (undef);
3. (@a,$b,$c,%d) = undef;
to use: (@a,$b,$c,%d) = (); This undefines all the variables in the list.
Note that assigning undef to @a in the first example creates an array of 1
key, with the value undef, and (@a,@b) = (undef,undef) creates arrays of 2
indexes, or something like that. Not what was wanted.
Examples 2 and 3 assign undef to @a: an array of 1 index, value undef, and
undefine the others variables in the list. This was not the desired behavior!
* For most scalars, arrays, and hashes, use: undef @a; undef $s; undef %h.
* For some hash and array index values, use $h{a} = undef. These cases may want
the key itself to exist, with the value of undef, though I believe:
undef $h{a};
is synonymous, but still have to verify that.
I did some testing, and realized that some of the undef I had used in the
various previous ways of using undef were not actually resulting in the expected
behaviors.
3. Refactored display_data_x into 3 functions, added display_data_xdpyinfo and
display_data_xrandr, which allows for more granular handling of those
dependencies, now inxi can show most advanced display data with only xrandr
installed.
4. Significantly improved all error handling and missing data for Wayland/Xorg.
5. Refactored get_display_manager() to better handle corner case dm file or
directory names, and to avoid endless loops. Much cleaner now. Required because
greetd had varying file names, greetd.run, or just greet-546.sock. With some
other dm's that use similar, or unreadable directories in /run, now just doing
a glob of /run/ /var/run, /var/run/rc.d as detected and checking for the dms
in the names, then just using the dms that were found. Simpler.
6. Massively simplified and integrated compositor logic in Graphics, now using
program_values() and program_data() as appropriate, and simple matching list
to ps_gui data to get detected compositor[s], much simpler, far more efficient
code, less to maintain. Also fixed long-standing weak spot of exiting on first
detected compositor, now shows all detected, with version etc for each if
available.
7. With 6. also significantly simplified and optimized get_ps_de_data() for
desktop data, that's the ps aux fallback case for wm desktop detections.
8. Made $wl compositors list global to avoid having to update each section,
that's now used in -G compositor, -S desktop/wm, and wm sections. It is set
in ps_gui() on initial load.
7. Settled on one and only way to do multiline conditionals, now use no space,
use same indent level as starting if/elsif etc. I've been debating this one, but
can't find any real way to handle that elegantly so I think best to just not
try, and leave it up the code flow to show when it's wrapped condition tests.
8. Refactored previous gl_output, expanded it to handle all interface types,
OpenGL, EGL (not currently active due to no known tool to get EGL data for
Wayland, and Interface: VBE type data for Xvesa. This roughly completed the
breaking apart of the X.org centric logic for Display, Monitors, and GL data,
and make all sections now fully agnostic to display server or protocol type.
Should new display servers appear, it will now be far more simple to add support
for them, since they would just plug into the existing abstraction layers.
9. Added --debug-arg to allow for passing specific custom args to the debugger.
10. Refactored display_server version, now works much better, creates lists of
server/version, and xwayland as well if found.
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Small point release with some useful fixes, some bugs corrected, small
enhancement.
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KNOWN ISSUES:
1. Note on KNOWN ISSUES 2 from 3.3.10, I realized that the second level
indentation actually takes care of that hanging parent, since now it's quite
clear that its children are indented on the following line. So that issue took
care of itself.
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BUGS:
1. In $bsd_type cases, specifically SunOS triggered this, where sysctl was not
present (which it always is in all other BSD types), it tripped an error due to
failure to update to revised $alerts{'sysctl'}->{'message'}, instead was using
the old method. Failed to update that in refactor of CheckTools logic. Would
impact no supported operating systems, but is a bug.
2. Corner case, a combination I never used, inxi -a, triggers error in the RAID
logic because the mdadm test was not run, generating an undefined eq error. Only
happened when mdraid was present and used on system.
3. Tiny bug, for st+mt cpus, like alder lake, was printing out second tpc by
accident which made it look like it said st: 4 tpc: 2. Just a small output
glitch.
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FIXES:
1. Added some fallback 32 bit system tests, [2345]86, like i386, i686.
2. Changed shell: Unknown Shell to shell: N/A, that was a legacy use, and was
obviously redundant. N/A is more consistent with rest of output no value found
handling. Due to requirement of doing empty tests, this is set in the data, not
output, generator component.
3. Refactored partition data logic to get rid of bsd tests for df -kTP, -kT, -k.
Now tests only to see if returns data, cascades down until it gets something.
Now will attempt to reconnect hanging lines when no -P feature available prior
to main partition data processing. This makes it agnostic to os issues, and it
just pays attention to feature support.
Also adds in dynamic column count instead of hard-coded, this avoids oddities
and future proofs to some degree. Now systems will adapt seamlessly if support
for -P appears, or -T, or whatever.
4. Partitions corner case, where has zram, but has no partitions, failed to show
partitions no data found message since @partitions had data in it, but nothing
for partitions output to print. Seen in TinyCore for example, but might happen
in other ram based systems.
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ENHANCEMENTS:
1. Added Slint to distro ID, and slint/slackware to system base.
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CHANGES:
1. None
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DOCUMENTATION:
1. Typo in man page fixed.
2. A few more edits and corrections on 3.3.10 changelong. That thing was written
concurrently with the development, and thus had lingering errors when things
were changed in midstream.
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CODE:
1. Added --cygwin and --android fake system type flag. Switches on $b_android/
$b_cygwin flags.
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Quick bug fix release. With as many changes as we got in 3.3.10, there were
bound to be a handful of oversights that were not caught in testing simply because those hardware scenarios were not present in the tested systems. Also minor feature enhancement for CPU scaling min/max speeds. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. Due to the huge amount of changes, and the speed of change, while the new code is working as intended, it's somewhat lacking in coding elegance since a lot of it was hacked out very quickly, in near real time. This will get cleaned up and refactored to be less redundant if it does not impact execution speed, but is not pressing since there should be no functional difference. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Tiny oversight, in single case CPU model id would fail because it was using an undefined test from previous tests, not the right test, that is. Tripped error on Elbrus for example. 2. Typo in battery secondary type status, created undefined value error. This was I believe an older bug. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. PPC revision change broke Elbrus revision test for stepping. Added in more tests to show stepping for elbrus revision. 2. Single core Elbrus in cpuinfo fallback mode failed to assign core multiplier so L1 cache failed. 3. In cpuinfo fallback mode, Elbrus E2C3 cache data failed to appear, that data in not per block in cpuinfo, but is the last block, so those tests had to run on each block, not just the first one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Show for -Ca scaling min/max speeds if different from CPU min/max speeds. 2. If no cpuinfo_min/max_freq speeds found, and scaling_min/max_freq found, set overall min/max to use scaling min/max instead of cpuinfo min/max. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. None. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Cleaned up and proofread better 3.3.10 changelog, it had a lot of errors because stuff kept changing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Small code optimizations. |
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Huge refactor of CPU physical/core/cache logic. That was some very old logic
with a lot of hacks and patches, but it had never been actually rewritten to
take advantage of Perl's far more powerful and robust data structures and logic.
This caused a continuous stream of error cases in subtle ways, or not so subtle,
and fixes were just changing how the errors manifested.
Tnanks very much to linuxquestions.org Slackware forum people for massive help,
and also to linux.org forum members for ongoing help and data and debugging.
Note Changes 5, change of default widths in display to 80 columns, and out (aka,
console, or ssh into remote system), 100. You can still use other widths if you
like something wider using the configuration options shown. Also upped max
columns wrapping line starters to own rows to 110 columns from 90, again the
idea being to make output more readable to other users when posted in public.
I've been thinking of this change for a long time, but was hoping -y would
register with users, but it hasn't gained enough traction, so the result is way
too many super hard to read issue reports, forum posts, linux kernel issues,
etc, it's honestly gotten sort of embarrassing because they make it look like
inxi has bad output. Sidescrolling code blocks in forums in particular are
absurdly hard to read and scan rapidly for data.
Going along with the width and indentation changes, for most main row types, if
they wrap to a second row, they are further indented 2 column2, to make it
easier to see what they belong to. The two levels of indentation contain more
useful visual cues as to what belongs to what.
There was a temptation to release this as either 3.4.00 or 4.0.00 but in the
end, I decided to follow the numbering rules, and to just roll it to 3.3.10
since there aren't really any primary new features even though CPU was basically
rewritten in large part, and big parts of inxi were also changed, upgraded, and
enhanced. But no truly new features, just some display control items like -Y,
--indent, --indents.
I hope this refactor meets its primary goals, and that the new defaults for
display help resolve public posting issues which have grown increasingly
annoying for anyone trying to read those pasted in too long outputs.
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KNOWN ISSUES:
1. Android seems to have CPU cache data, but does not show any 'size' item. But
it does have the other data for each cache type internally, which is odd.
2. In some instances, the parent key:value pairs with '' as value, those are
parents of children key:value pairs, are left hanging at end of line, with the
children on the following line. This can look awkward, but in other cases,
actually looks very good, it depends if it's at the start or end of the line.
I won't say this is not correctable, but it would be very difficult, and outside
the scope of this release, but that is something that I may look at for a future
release now that the output generator logic was reworked slightly for Change 5b.
It's tricky though, because in cases where it's the first item on the line, you
want that behavior, but when it's last, you don't. But this may be worth
revisiting in the future.
3. In some cases, -Y + -y1 may lead to the start of the block scrolling off the
top of the visible screen. This isn't really correctable, so if that's an issue
for you, just don't use -y1 with -Y and all the output will wrap nicely.
4. There is an unaccountable ~10-20ms delay reading cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq,
per thread/core, which really adds up on high thread count CPUs. There is a
workaround in inxi to use cpufreq_cur_freq if it is readable, ie, if you are
root or use sudo, but to fallback to scaling_cur_freq if can't read cpuinfo_...
This is a drag, and really looks like a kernel bug, or a frequency driver bug.
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BUGS:
1. 3.3.09 and 3.3.10 CPU bug fixes:
* Failed to filter out certain virtual machine CPU core speeds, and showed more
speeds than the instance actually has. Noticed this with KVM running on Xeon
CPUs.
* For many cases, L2 cache, particularly for Intel, was completely wrong, it was
showing L3 caches, or L3+L2. Failed to handle cases where L2 cache belongs to
more than 1 core, except for using a crude hack for AMD Bulldozer microarch.
Older Intel Core 4 core CPUs would sometimes be 1 L2 per die, and the 4 cores
were actually 2 core duo cpu dies, with one L2 cache per die.
* Shows wrong core count for complex core complexes like those found in Intel
Alder Lake, now shows correct count of actual cores, regardless of the MT or ST
state of each core.
* Showed invalid L3 cache values in some legacy cpus that had no L3 cache, that
is due to a bug in the dmidecode data itself. Solution is to never use dmidecode
cache data if any other valid L1, L2, or L3 cache data found for Linux, and to
only use dmidecode data for bsds if no L1, or L2, or L3 data found. Or if forced
with --dmidecode.
2. An unfortunately long standing bug found and fixed, thanks slackware users!
cp_cpu_arch was, and has been for a while, failing to convert hex stepping to
decimal, or test if the string it gets is even a possible hex value, this
resulted in all Intel CPUs with stepping > 9 failing to ID correctly for cpu
arch.
3. In a related bug, hex to decimal tool used to create --admin hex/decimal
output for family/model/stepping was also not testing if the string was an
actual valid hex number. Case in particular, power pc with revision field
contained a long string, which was of course not a valid hex number, and that
tripped a Perl error when it was asked to convert a non hex string to decimal.
4. Long standing bug found while doing Change 5: inxi actually never applied
separate in/out of dispay to widths because using a legacy boolean that was not
updated, so it was always using out of display widths.
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FIXES:
1. Incorrectly calling PowerPC 'revision' 'stepping' for -Ca, that is now stored
as $cpu{'revision'} to avoid mixing up the logics there. For PowerPC shows as
rev: [string].
2. Microarch:
* AMD family 15, model 2 as bulldozer, actually piledriver.
* AMD family 17, model 18, was supposed to be zen/zen+, since I can't tell those
apart, seen stepping 1 is zen+, but had incorrect match.
* Intel family 6, model 25, stepping 2 as nehalem, should have been westmere.
* Changed Penryn to Core Penryn, intel family 6, model 17
* misc other micro arch fine tunings.
3. Code fix 8, switched to global %risc for arm, mips, ppc, riscv, sparc. This
corrects many sloppy handlers, and makes all risc processing the same, and calls
device tree readers for all risc systems, not just arm or arm and mips.
4. In cases where bogomips were 0 due to false values in risc results, show N/A.
5. Removed all attempts to guess at what /proc/cpuinfo cache size: refers to,
it can literally be anything, a per core L1, a per core or cpu L2, or an L3.
So applying any math to it is just a random guess at that point. If any L1,2,3
cache data is found, don't use the cache: value at all, but that will only be
present if no /sys data was found anyway, and if cpuinfo had no specific cache
type fields, only generic cache.
6. Added failsafe tests for stepping and model id before doing conversion to
hex. Make sure integer!
7. Added L1 D cache, was only using I cache for BSDs. Output will show total for
L1 A + L1 D. No idea why I didn't use L1 D, makes little sense, but that's how
it goes.
8. Made bogomips tests more granular, now only rejects low sub 50 bogomips
values if %risc cpu type. Legacy ancient cpus like 486 could and did have
bogomip counts below 50.
https://tldp.org/HOWTO/BogoMips/bogo-list.html
9. See Enhancement 12 as well. If OpenBSD, which has no per core data or
physical cpu data, is running on MT capable cpu, but for security OpenBSD has
disabled MT, will now force MT to be not shown via the hw.smt value. This
removes a small glitch that would have bothered OpenBSD users who know that
OpenBSD has disabled MT for security purposes.
10. Changed BSD hack to use L2 cache totals to deduce > 1 physical cpus, that
was flat out dumb, since we can just use dmidecode type 4 to iterate physical
cpu counts and skip the pointless logic. Thus, if dmidecode, and if > 1
dmidecode type 4 found, and if physical cpu counts equal 1, then replace the
found counts with the dmidecode physical cpu counts.
11. Corrected bad assumption that threads would always be 2 per core for MT
tests. Still no way to reliably determine threads per core for non x86 cpus like
powerpc however, but those are very fringe and should rarely be an issue since
that data is only missing on very old linux now I think.
12. Fixed 'parameters:' going to its own line with -Sa, that wasn't supposed to.
-S is two lines, the kernel / host stuff, and the desktop/console/distro stuff.
13. Fixed case when key: value first word plus other parts of line longer than
max width, failed to wrap as expected.
14. Added start/end ' and " start / end \s to main filters.
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ENHANCEMENTS:
1. CPU: most Linux will now show L1 and L3 cache with -Cx without needing
sudo/root, and it will be more accurate than ever before.
2. CPU: shows per CPU L1/L2/L3 totals, and shows actual full system physical
processor count * L1/L2/L3 total in parentheses, like: L2: 1.5 MiB (3 MiB).
3. CPU: A long standing annoyance, previously for main CPU 'Speed:' item, showed
the fastest core speed found, now shows avg: [speed] and with -Cx, shows the
'high:' as well if > 1 cores, and if 1 or more cores have a higher speed than
the other(s).
4. CPU: Handles advanced cases of new architectures, like Alder Lake with
Performance and Efficiency cores, future Zen, and existing ARM CPUs with 2 or
more different core sets, with different max/min frequencies. Previously a hack
was used to handle only ARM CPUs with this type of architecture. Will show
correct CPU core counts, which previous inxi versions would fail to do for Alder
Lake type scenarios of 8 single threaded CPUs and 4-8 multithreaded )MT)
perforance cores.
This should also in theory show different the different min/max speeds if they
were detected. Those did not seem to be set correctly in Alder Lake sample data
I saw however, P and E cores were set to the same min/max speeds.
5. Added CPU types MST (Multi+Single Thread), AMP (Asymmetric Multi Processing),
and AMCP (Asymmetrical Multi Core Processor). This will be applied to any CPU
that has this type of complex topology that has been dynamically detected, like
Alder Lake or different core count or min/max speed RISC CPUs.
6. CPU: shows with -Ca for cases where different L1/L2/L3 caches found per
physical CPU, as with Alder Lake, but also many other variants that were poorly
or not at all handled before, how many of each cache type (L1 Data, instruction)
were found, otherwise will show how many of each cache were found.
7. CPU: shows with -Ca in Topology: report, for cases like Alder Lake with
different core types in one physical CPU (type: MST AMCP), the number that are
single threaded (st) and number that are multi-threaded (mt).
8. Basic support for rsyc-v systems, going along with code fix 8, fix 3, now
it's easy to add this type of support.
9. Added shortcut options for --filter-label (--zl), --filter-uuid (--zu), and
andded new filter option, --filter-vulnerabilities (--zv). The latter is added
by request, a decent idea to have option to not show cpu vulnerabilities.
10. Going with fix 7, switched to a sort of pseudo L1 d/i with desc report for
any BSD with L1 I/D cache found, or elbrus cache0 (icache) / cache1 (d cache).
Elbrus should hopefully be handled by the /sys tool. Guesses on the L1 are ok,
since those are almost always per core, so it's fine. Didn't expect to enhance
any BSD cpu data this time around, but there you go!! If they have the data,
then it will be used. Not going to go overboard though in that, quite useless
overall since usually can't see how many CPUs are present, at least not usually.
11. For -Ca, full CPU topology report if any complex topogy is detected,
otherwise shows the same basic Info: 2x 6-core or Info: dual core as before, no
point in wasting a line for something with no more data than the short string.
Complex types include MT CPUs since they will have different thread counts etc,
and will have 2 or more threads per core, which will also be listed.
12. If smt status is defined (0/1), shows smt: enabled|disabled in Topology
section, can be useful for systems with disabled MT, but supporting it. If no
topology data found (OpenBSD for example), for -C shows 'smt: disabled' after
'type:' section, and enabled if -Cxxx (since MT really already tells you that).
13. For -Ca Speed: report, added 'governor:' item, if found. Can show 1 or more
active governors.
14. Output height (in lines) control: -Y [-2|-1|0|1-xxx]]. This lets you break
up any of the output into whatever number of lines you want. Also useful out of
DISPLAY for reading -h options menu items etc.
It came tp my attention that the long standing shift+pgup/pgdown (aka
'softscrollback) behavior had stopped working, and in fact has been removed from
the current Linux kernel, at least until it is rewritten to be more clean and
understandable. Read more about it in these kernel post/commit messages:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=50145474f6ef4a9c19205b173da6264a644c7489
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/CAHk-=whe4ZdTdCebneWqC4gSQZwsVJ5-Emg0BucOGCwPhOAJpw@mail.gmail.com/
Options for -Y are:
* -Y 0 or -Y: Set maximum block height to terminal line height.
* -Y [1-xxx]: Set maximum block line height to given integer.
* -Y -1: Print out one primary data block item at a time, with -F for example.
* -Y -2: Restore default unlimited height if LINES_MAX configuration item used.
15. And finally, more disk vendors/vendor ids. As usual. As expected.
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CHANGES:
1. If /sys or /proc/cpuinfo speed data available:
* For -b CPU item:
speed: [speed MHz] min/max: [min]/[max] MHz
becomes:
speed (MHz): avg: [speed] min/max: [min]/[max]
* For -C, Speed item
Speed: [speed MHz] min/max: [min]/[max] MHz Cores (MHz): ...
becomes:
Speed (MHz): avg: [speed] min/max: [min]/[max] cores: ...
* For short form, shows speed/min/max but uses average speed if available.
For -b and -C, only shows one MHz in Speed line starter, which slightly shortens
the line even with the added 'avg:' item since 3 MHz are replaced with 1.
2. Going with change 1, now the 'avg:' item shows not the fastest cpu speed
found, which was the case before, but shows an average of all cpu speeds found.
Showing the fastest made some sense back in the days of single core, or even
dual core CPUs, but makes little sense today with many core/threaded cpus.
With -x, it will show the high: [speed] item as well, after 'avg:'.
3. By suggestion, wrapped first Type item in Vulnerabilities to its own line,
that's a verbose --admin option after all, no need to save lines!
4. Going along with Fix 5, give up on trying to pretend we can guess at L2
cache, now if only 'cache' data was available from cpuinfo, will just say:
cache: [cache size]
note: check
and call it a day.
5a. Change default width to 80 columns, in and out of display. Too many users
are posting horribly wrapping inxi output in forums, issue trackers, etc, and it
frankly makes inxi look really bad, creates awful side scrolling code boxes,
etc. So now default widths in and out of console are 80 (since often data is
generated in SSH or out of X/Wayland) for issues.
This essentially makes -y 80/-y the default width. This is what I've been using
for a few years now, and after seeing far too many side scrolling or badly
wrapping inxi outputs online, I think it's probably time to just force 80 column
widths as default and call it a day.
You can change these new defaults using configuration options (these are the
previous options, though due to a bug, COLS_MAX_CONSOLE was never being used):
COLS_MAX_CONSOLE=115 # in display, terminal client max width
COLS_MAX_IRC=100
COLS_MAX_NO_DISPLAY=130 # not in display, no X/Wayland running
5b. Changed output wrapped indent to 1 column from 2, and make second and
greater rows of a line indent +1 to make it more clear that it is a child row of
its parent row. Note that because no arg short form, -S, and -I are special
types of rows, this behavior is not used, they just print out as usual. This 1
column indent also applies to -y1, making for a little more data per line but
more readable and easy to follow.
6. If > 1 physical cpu detected, no longer uses single/dual/triple/quad core
strings, rather uses: 2x 2-core. Also uses lower case -core, not -Core.
7. Only show die counts for CPU (on rare occasions > 1 found) with -xx. Not
particularly important bit of data afterall.
8. Make L1, L3 cache data show with -Cx, not -Cxx, now that it's working well.
9. Removed CPU die for -Cxx, that's only going to show with -Ca now.
10. If -Ca, and if certain complexity conditions are met, shows a separate
Topology line rather than the Info: 6-core type item. For -b, short, -Cx, -Cxxx
shows the Info: topology short form.
11. Bogomips always shows before flags data, whether -f or just -Cx trips flag
output.
12. Flags/Features now shows in the same place, under Speeds: always, whether
-Cx shortlist, or -Cf full list. Makes more sense that way, and code is much
cleaner too.
13. Bogomips, being essentially bogus units of speed for cpu, are moved into
Speed: report.
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DOCUMENTATION:
1. Updated man/help for new CPU extra data options and output changes.
2. Cleaned up and added sample outputs for man CPU items.
3. Now that doas is getting into Linux distros, removed all mentions of doas as
a BSD option, and made it a general doas/sudo item. Glad to see doas making it
into linux distros, it's a good tool, much easier to configure and use than
sudo. Good job OpenBSD guys. Note that inxi already has had full doas support
for a while now, but this finalizes it, and makes it fully agnostic. Internally
doas is actually preferred over sudo, by the way.
4. Added documention items for INDENT (--indent), INDENT_MIN (--inident-min).
5. Re-ordered help menu and man page, created new Filters and Output Controls
sections to make stuff easier to find. In man page, also added on top a list of
OPTIONS sections to make finding stuff easier.
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CODE:
1. Removed legacy /sys cpu functions: cpu_bugs_sys(); get_boost_status();
set_cpu_speeds_sys(). cpu_speeds() is deprecated and now will only be used for
legacy Linux and BSDs if they had any per core speeds found; get_caches() was
only a placeholder for the full featured cpu_sys data source, and was removed;
cpu_speeds() no longer needed, integrated into other logic; cpu_dies_sys()
removed, integrated into other logic.
This logic is now integrated into cpu_data_sys() data generator.
2. Changed the main CpuItems functions to use array/hash references, not passing
full hashes or arrays in most cases now.
3. For machine_data_soc(), switched to CpuItem::cpuinfo_grabber() which then
sets the global @cpuinfo and %cpuinfo_machine items, which will be used again
in Cpu if cpu data is requested. This gets rid of a full parsing of cpuinfo
just to get the machine data section, and also makes it so cpuinfo in cpu does
not need to worry about the machine data block, which is not related to the
processor blocks anyway, that was always a hack done by the kernel guys to toss
that SOC data somewhere as far as I can tell.
4. New tools:
* either_or() - takes a list, and returns the first defined element of list.
* regex_range() - generate ranges from comma, space, or ranges like 2-29, or any
combination of those, like 3,6,12-29
5. Added --force cpuinfo to bypass all /sys based cpu logic, useful for testing
to see what would have happened using old logic.
6. Added --dbg switches 39, 40, 41, for the new cpu sys data features, also made
more consistent --dbg 8 and --dbg 38 switches.
7. Added sys/cpuinfo pair debugger to support debugging complex sys/cpuinfo
issues.
8. Got rid of $b_arm,$b_mips,$b_ppc,$b_sparc, replaced with global %risc, also
added $risc{'riscv'} type. this makes general risc type feature testing a lot
easier since inxi can either test for %risc defined, or for a specific type of
risc cpu. This is much cleaner, and use $risc{'id'} for print purposes, which
got rid of a lot of tests. Also made all risc tests consistent, some were ARM
only, or arm/mips, but were supposed to be for all risc cpus.
9. Set help menu code to roughly 80 columns width assuming 2 space tab
indentation.
10. Changed all xxx_cleaner subs to clean_xxx, all filter subs to filter_xxx,
and row_defaults() to message().
11. Dumped redundant fallback logic in get_kernel_bits, if first getconf method
fails, use $sys_bits, and call it good, it was repeating the 32/64 bit tests
pointlessly.
12. Cleaned up print_data() to allow for more fine tuned indentation for the new
2 indent levels.
13. Made help menu code more or less wrap to 80 columns, or close. Ongoing to
bring to 80 columns where practical, but never at expense of clarity or logic.
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Thanks manjaro user alven for finding a bunch of corner and not so corner case
errors, glitches, documentation oversights, etc. This is a point release between the coming full CPU refactor and the current set of bug fixes and issue handlings. This release also contains the debuggers for the new CPU data logic, which are important to get this CPU refactor stable and reliable across old/new systems, different operating systems and platforms. Wanted to do this intermediate releaase to get the current fixes out, which make inxi overall better for CPU issues, but do not handle the core requirement to do a full refactor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CORRECTION: 1. On release notes for 3.3.08: due to a long delay to get real debugger data from the person who had the issue, but finally getting it after the release of 3.3.08, there was NO bug in ps wwaux output. Something else was creating the linewraps, maybe the subshell, it's basically impossible to know since we never got a real debugger data set, which is the only real way to get the actual same data inxi will see. Was it a subshell wrapping the output? We just can't know, nor are we likely to ever find out. This highlights very well however why some issues are essentially impossible to ever fully resolve without the --debug 22 dataset. This bug/fix is definitely in that class of issues. It's never good to accuse another program of having a bug when it doesn't, so sorry to ps authors, no bug or issue exists for ps in this area. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. wiryonolau issue #259 points out that if --tty is used, default IRC filter rule is still active and on. Because his case appears to be from an autostart using Bash, which then gives up to find the parent at dash, which then makes inxi believe it's in an IRC shell client, that issue doesn't appear to be resolvable. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Documentation, help menu and man page showed wmctl instead of wmctrl, which for someone who reads the help man, leads to command --fake wmctl failing. Thanks manjaro user alven for finding this typo. 2. For dmidecode cpu data, had global total values for cache that could result in wrong output values, 2x or more wrong for L1 / L3 cache on linux. Difficulty is preserving that data for bsd, which in general do not show phys cpu counts, and thus make showing totals off. Created new '-total' item for each L cache type, which will handle > 1 cpus, and also can be used to determine if > 1 cpus present!. 3. Manjaro user pointed out that hub types were wrong, this is because inxi was using the INTERFACE ID values for hubs instead of the TYPE values. For all other device types, INTERFACE is correct, but for hubs, we needed TYPE, so fix is to detect INTERFACE 9/0/0 and if TYPE present for that, swap. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. For > 1 cpu systems, with dmidecode sourced cpu cache data, can now determine physical cpu count based on comparing L2 and L2-total values. This means that when dmidecode is used on BSD for CPU data, inxi may now be able to deduce that it is a > 1 cpu system. 2. Forgot to set $run{'filter'} to 0 for whitelist start client detection. 3. Going along with bug 3, changed 'Full speed (or root) hub' to: Full speed or root hub, to make more clear that it's one or the other, or both. 4. For apply_filter(), added test if <superuser required> just return the string. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Going with bug 1, and fix 1, for > 1 cpu systems, will now show for all cache: items L1: 2x 1.5 MiB (3 MiB), same for L2 and L3. This is far less confusing than showing the totals without explaining what they are. 2. Going along with 1, now root is not required to show L1 and L3 -Cxx on Linux as long as the system is reasonably new, about after 2008, and has getconf -a supported. That support is came in somewhere around 2.10, not sure exactly when. Debian Etch had it, Sarge did not, Ubuntu 9.10 had it. Tinycore does not have getconf at all. This will probably be replaced by a more robust full cpu /sys data tool. 3. Added ht to default short -Cx flag list, that should show, and it's short. 4. Added --no-filter to activate -Z, --filter-override isn't consistent with other --no-xxx options, even I forgot it. No changes, just another way to use -Z. 5. For issue #260 added pch as a new sensor output type, it's kind of a builtin southbridge / northbridge in the CPU die, but it's not a core, and has a different temp. Will anyone even know what pch is? probably not, but who cares. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. No longer showing for > 1 physical cpu systems the sum total of L1/2/3 cache data. Now shows per cpu L1/L2/L3, and if > 1 cpu, shows for example: cache: L1: 2x 512 KiB (1024 KiB) L2: 2x 2 MiB (4 MiB) L3: 2x 20 MiB (40 MiB) For single physical cpu output remains the same: cache: L1: 576 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 16 MiB -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Updated help/man for L1/L3 cache -Cxx changes. 2. Updated man and help to suggest -Z for --tty. 3. Forgot to note -v 7 adds -f, added to man/help. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: * Added 'getconf -a' to debugger, that may be usable for cpu cache data, need to gather data on that to confirm. that's regading issue #257 cache glitches. 2. Removed all * $physical_count for cache data in cpu_properties, that is now handled by creating string with cpu count, per cpu caches, and total in parens. 3. Added in fallback failure case for the ZFS file system issue exposed by accident in issue #258 - will now log in debugger the error, so we can try to find what is going on there, impossible to reproduce until we find what zfs or more likely, freebsd, changed there. Could be hyper specific, some weird thing like a person making a zfs device name with space, impossible to guess. Note that since the freebsd user declined to supply any data to help resolve this issue, then closed it, we're back where we usually end up with FreeBSD issues, either a Linux user (or worse, me) willing and able to find the issue and supply the debugger data required shows up, OR the issue is ignored as valid but impossible to resolve. RANT: Note that this also confirmed to me that in order to preserve my own sanity and not waste endless hours trying to get data, from now on, unless utterly trivial, if a FreeBSD user refuses to promptly supply the required data, the issue will be closed with a freebsd-closed-no-data-supplied label, which means, valid but not possible to solve due to user refusing to help me help them. Come on FreeBSD users!! If you want help, and inxi to support your distro, help me help you!! If not, then why are you even filing an issue in the first place? Do you expect faeries to spread magic bug / issue fixing faerie dust over inxi and then activate it with their little wands? This is growing tiresome to be honest because it's so utterly predictable. 4. Shuffled order of sensor type detections, there was a slim chance that a non gpu sensor type could have string intel in it, so put the gpu sensors second to last, before 'main'. 5. Started refactor of cpu core/cache logic. Added feature to cpu_arch, and changed it to cpu_info since now it gives by vendor/family/model/stepping both micorarch and cache/core math array returns. Also started refactor to make more predictable, with increased comments, about what is going on in cpu_properties to avoid breaking existing correct results. 6. Added to --debug /sys cpu data globber tool, that will help debugging the new /sys cpu data feature, will let me insert the file data directly into the logic. 7. Added CpuItem::cpu_data_sys() with debuggers, that will now start collecting user cpu data whenever the debugger is run, though it's not active yet. 8. Set $Data::Dumper::SortKeys = 1; dugh, could have saved big headaches if had found this before. Makes all keys sorted cleanly, gets rid of random hash sorts. |
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Bug fix release. 2 bugs that can impact all users under the right circumstances
were detected and fixed. Thanks manjaro users there for finding and reporting those. No other changes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Manjaro user ben81 located a critical bug in hardware raid output, this bug impacts ALL users of hwraid that run inxi with -xx option. Bug was a bad copy paste, the classic, had updated all the pci type data blocks at once, and hw raid unfortunately had a slightly different logic due to being part of the more complex RAID block of logic. Was trying to use an array, not a hash, reference. Thanks ben81, I would never have spotted this one, and it would impact 100% of all inxi users with hwraid on their machine who ran inxi with -xx option. 2. Also, ps wwaux parser was spitting out an undefined index error. This is caused by one of two things: * ps has an issue, and is apparently at times failing to respect ww, unlimited line length, and wrapping anyway. This is the likely cause. * the user terminal for some inexpicable reason has decided to hard wrap long lines. This is very unlikely, but has to be considered as a possible cause. Since these commands run in a subshell, this is VERY unlikely. Workaround this failure by double checking that line split item is defined, if not, next row. Thanks Carpenter for finding that one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Added workarounds for bug 2. Corrected silly copy/paste error for bug 1. |
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RELEASE NOTES: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some very nice issue reports have helped correct various corner case issues. Mint users helped find a big one with lspci. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. Unsure how to handle Android case where inxi correctly does -r test, see bug 3 fixes 6, but android incorrectly claims it is readable when it is not readable, then the reader tool can't read the file and fails with permissions error. This is one of those weird android errors that are pretty much impossible to fully work around, but we can get rid of the readline() errors when reader() was trying to work on a file handle that did not exist, that part was an inxi bug. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. dm detection was not using case sensitive search for duplicates, leading to cases where dm like slim / SLiM failed to get detected and then repeated in output. Anonymous BSD debugger dataset exposed this issue, thanks. 2. In certain corner cases, like ARM Android, sub reader got passed a file that had passed the is readable -r test, but it still failed with permissions error, which then led reader to try to keep working with a null $fh. While in theory nothing non readable should be passed to reader(), that fails when the OS fails to actually follow correct readable rules, as in this case. Added protections in reader() to handle this case, now will show error, but will not try to work with $fh, that is how it should have been all along, but this is a very corner case. Exposed by an anoymous ARM debugger dataset. Thanks Termux user for creating the debugger dataset that exposed this issue. 3. lspci parser didn't null port value each iteration, resulting in all pci items getting port values. Not a big deal, port is only used one place, but good to find and correct that error. 4. Not an inxi bug, but would appear so to end users: lspsci -nnv implements a truncating routine and breaks the first line for each bus id. See Fix 6 and Code fix 3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. -S and -I would show Console: tty pts/3 even though pts device is a pty, not a tty. The only time this happened was when connecting to a remote system using ssh or something like that. Local console still shows Console: tty 2 since that was correct, but Console: tty pts/2 was confusing since technically it's not a tty, it's a pty, pseudo terminal. Now shows, when relevant: Console: tty 2 OR Console: pty pts/2. 2. Issue #252 notes that Emacs (and possibly other code/text editors with native embedded terminals) includes a native virtual terminal that also follows configuration rules from the editor to highlight trailing spaces. This created odd looking screen output in Emacs vt mode since inxi always sets key/value pairs with a white space ending as separator for next key value pair for screen output mode, resulting always in a trailing space on each vt screen line. Fix was to remove the last trailing space just prior to the print line point to avoid this issue. As a general thing, I'm curious to learn if any editor other than Emacs actually contains its own virtual terminal that also follows the editor rules for output. Or if any virtual terminal has such a highlight trailing space rule, which would be imo so annoying it's hard to understand why a vt would implement it. Easy to understand why Emacs (or any editor) does it, but an editor also being a vt AND applying certain editor display configurations to the vt is a very specific and unique circumstance I'd say. Odd, historical, but there it is, why not handle it? 3. ARM / Android case where certain files passed the read -r test, but failed with permission denied error. This tripped a further glitch where reader() would then try to work with the failed $fh, see bug 2. This was really more a fix than a bug, since the bug in this case was in android permissions tests, not inxi, but it appears to be a bug to end users, so it's handled now. 4. Another ARM/Android, there was a voltage regulator IP that contained the term wlan so it tripped false positive for network match. Added a new type, regulator, to filter out those, like codec and dummy do already. 5. For issue #254, fix for cygwin ERR-102 in partitions, add cygwin test, new dev type, 'windows', dev base then becomes E: or whatever. To avoid confusing D: for a key: with no value, added D:/ slash. 6. Mint people discovered lspci issue, lspci -nnv has a bug where it will truncate the output of the first line per bus ID if it's over some arbitrary amount, then tack on rev and other items to end of that string, which leads to the block: [vendorID:productID] getting truncated or removed altogether. Clearly an oversight, at least I hope it's an oversight on lspci's part, but have to work around the issue anyway since it may never get fixed, and has been around a long time. Bug is in lspci 3.7, 3.6.4, and probably earlier. Also added in a fillin tool for this rare case, lspci -n data is used to replace the missing values. Note that while lspci recommends using -mmv, for machine parsing, apparently nobody noticed that -mmv doesn't have the same data items as -nnv, sigh. 7. Issue #255 noted that the combination of: GoogleDrive Hogne: fuse.rclone 15728640 which is two word remote fs AND a fs type with a '.' in it would fail to trip the handler for that multi word remote mount name. Also failed to detect as remote fs, added fs specific test since the actual mount name doesn't permit reliable detection as remote type. Testing for trailing ':' isn't safe since ':' alone is not an invalid character in a file system name as far as I know. Further, this exposed that the ^^ space replacements for $row[0] fs > 1 word name were not being reset soon enough in the logic, that's also corrected. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Neglected to support standard package config file override /etc/inxi.d/inxi.conf item. This is mainly useful for packaged inxi's who want to override the distro maintainer /etc/inxi.conf file. Test priority is the same except /etc/inxi.d/inxi.conf comes right after /etc/inxi.conf now in the test sequence. 2. Added basic cygwin id, yes, inxi works in cygwin, apparently, with some issues. Added cygwin os id to distro ids. 3. Added --version info for debugger, sometimes we want to know what verion of a tool, like lspci, in case it has a bug or something. 4. Added exfat and apfs to unmounted fs types. 5. More disk vendors!! New vendor ID matches!! Yes, yes, you've heard it all before, the list never ends!! The eternal chaos of existence manifested in just how many IDs can be generated for new and old disk vendors alike!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. No changes this release. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Pull request #253 corrected typos, urls, and other errors in man page, inxi/pinxi comments, pinxi.1/inxi.1, README.txt, and updated LICENSE.txt to current gnu wording. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Forgot to add lspci debugger fake data option, that's corrected. That's --fake lspci, now works, didn't before, only the bsd pci tools had fake switches previously, since lspci never needs debugging really, but did now to test an issue report. 2. Added -CYGWIN to debugger file name. Added -ANDROID if ARM and if android. 3. With Fix 6, refactored entire lspci_data block, added lspci_n_data item, which matches bus id of lspci -nnv when corruption occurs and replaces vendor, product, and if also missing, rev version. I kind of knew I'd have to do this fix one day, that was the same fix logic used on the BSD pci tools, which have similar issues with consistency in output, or lack thereof. This refactor is long term very good because it avoids an entire class of possible errors, and makes pci detections far more robust. 4. Created new repo, for legacy code, inxi-legacy. Moved branch inxi-c to inxi-legacy/xorg-c, moved branch xiin to /xiin, moved branch inxi-legacy (binxi) to inxi-legacy/inxi-legacy. Those directories each contain all the files each branch had in it. This gets rid of some branches clutter, and nobody needs to see those anymore, but if they care, they can look at them. Note that to do this, I had to merge their histories, which was not that nice, but git is just really bad at this type of stuff, so that's how it goes. Times like this really make me miss svn's directory based branch approach... 5. Simplified sub fs_excludes, simplified regex constructors for all function that use this data, made list more fault tolerate by adding global (fs)?(\d{0,2} which means all file systems can have or not have 'fs' at end, and all can have or not have a version number in string. 6. Exposed by issue #255, refactored slightly ordering of partition filter logics and variable resets in the df output processing loop. 7. Added --fake partitions, to help debug odd corner cases like cygwin glitches. |
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New version! Fixes!! Bug fixes! More bug fixes!! Cleanups!
Most of these were exposed by issue #251 filed by LukasNickel, then further revealed via his debugger data set, which showed two more bugs. Well, bugs, changed syntaxes, same difference to end users. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. Work is ongoing to add btrfs support to -R (similar to softraid or zfs), basic stubs and debuggers added, but reporting tools are not as robust (and often require sudo/root for reasons that escape me) as I would have hoped, so it's slow. One of these days... Normally would not release with working stubs, but there were enough real issues/bugs to warrant just getting 3.3.06 out the door, then going on with the btrfs feature for -R. But so far I view the reporting tools as inadequate, unfortunately. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. As initially discovered in issue #251 there are alternate syntaxes which had never been seen before for remote mounts, fuse mounts, etc. In this case, it was fuse.sshfs that was not removed from the Disk total:... used: leading to silly 1000+% used percentage. Note that while technically inxi could try to be clever about reporting impossible percentages, so far those have led to bugs getting reported, then fixed, so I think it worth leaving it as is. 2. When --swap/-j is used with no other arguments, failed to show uuid or label. Discovered this while testing fix 2. 3. Bug which is not a bug but will appear as such to users, nvme temps were failing in -Dx due to a change in how those values are located in /sys. See fix 3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Going along with Bug 1, and considering that only in 3.3.05 was the nfs4 remote fs failure to identify/exclude, the entire section involving remote/ fuse etc file systems was refactored, and extended to add many more previously non-handled remote and fuse type file systems. Significant extension of known remote filesystem types, distributed file systems, overlay file systems, all to try to avoid having more distributed/remote/fuse file system issues. Also added test to support fuse. or fuseblk. type prefixes for any of these. Hopefully there will be fewer issues related to distributed and remote and overlay type file systems in the future. 2. Made all label/uuid triggers global, that is, -ol shows unmounted with labels, -ju shows swap with uuid, and so on. This may require a bit more tweaks to get exactly right, but in general, this is a purely cosmetic fix, that is, try not to show label/uuid for partition/mounts that probably can't have those values. 3. There was a change in the way nvme /sys temperature paths were handled, an actually understandable, albeit as always annoying, one, because inxi actually had to do a sort of convoluted hack to get the nvme block devices temperatore paths before, now that hack is not required for newer kernels (5.12+), though for kernels that had the old paths (5,8, 5.9 at least, don't know when paths changed) left in the old method. Now tests are more granular, and inxi should find temperatures regardless of which method is used for nvme and sd type drives. 4. Another somewhat irksome random change, again, understandable since the new syntax is more consistent in output than the previous one, but still breaks all existing parsers that use the changed field names. Lsblk did NOT change the -o input field names, but DID change the output field names, which broke the internal inxi parser, and led to null lsblk data. Changes were - or : separators in input values are output as _ always. that is, MAJ:MIN becomes MAJ_MIN. Also corrected the debugger lsblk to use the same output fields for -P -o as the actual lsblk parser uses internally so these failures can be spotted more readily, as it was, it was literally only because someone submitted the debugger dataset, and was running lsblk 2.37, where I believe this behavior change happened. Solution was to just use regex patterns instead, [:_-], in the parser. Big fear now is that they will randomly stop supporting the -o input field names that contain - or : and change that too without any real warning or deprecation notice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Going with bug and fix 1, added avfs, afs, archivemount, avfs, ceph, gfs, glusterfs, gmailfs, hdfs, ipfs, kosmos/kfs, lafs, mergerfs, mhddfs, moosefs, ocfs, openafs, orangefs, overlayfs, pvfs, s3fs, sheepdog, vmfs, and several others to the exclude list for disk used and show label/uuids for partitions. 2. A smattering of disk vendors added. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. Going with fix 2, -l and -u no longer will trigger -P by default, now if -l or -u are used without -j, -o, -p, -P, an error will explain that you must use one of those together with -l or -u. This was the only way to get the -l and -u switches to turn off/on label/uuid reports in swap, unmounted, and partitions consistently. Triggering -P was really a legacy behavior from when the only options were -p or -P, and --swap and --unmounted did not exist. I found it increasingly odd that unmounted would show label/uuid always but partitions only with -l/-u. 2. This was a pet peeve, sometimes field names just bug me (like 'Topology: did for CPU, now corrected to Info:), the Drive: rotation: was one such annoyance. I had recycled that to indicate SSD, which was a feature request, but that was always a sloppy solution, and made no sense, since SSD isn't a rotation speed. Now it reports a much more logical: ID-1:...... type: HDD rpm: 7200 or ID-1:...... type: SSD or ID-1:...... type: N/A This also corresponds to the intended meaning much better. The HDD type was always present internally if rotation speed is detected, but was not used. Now will also show type: N/A if reliable type detection failed, which will also be more consistent. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Brought most of inxi.changelog (this file) into a consistent state, re whitespaces, readability, consistent use of various header / section names. Ideally while I don't expect anyone to ever sit down and read this changelog, it will be now much easier to scan to find whatever interests you. This change goes along with ongoing changes in docs to in general try to be usually 80 columns wide. 2. inxi-resources.txt, inxi-data.txt are updated with more raid, partition, file system values and data to go along with bug, fix, enhancement 1. 3. Man and help updated to indicate -u and -l no longer trigger -P by default. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Ongoing refactors, bringing the codebase to the point that matches current coding styles. Removed remainder of whitespaces in conditions and for/while loops, for example: if ( condition ) { becomes: if (condition){ and if ( ( test set 1 ) && ( test set 2 ) ) { becomes: if ((test set 1) && (test set 2)){ and so on. That dropped over 2 KiB of whitespaces. This went along with fixes that have been ongoing to change to this whitespace use style, but previously it was only being done when that situation was hit in a local block, now it's been completed globally. This continues the style refactor that has been ongoing for a while now, to bring inxi into a consistent state, since when it started, it was more pressing to get the bash/gawk mess translated to Perl than it was to get the Perl itself to be as good/consistent as possible, so now those issues are being slowly unravelled, and hopefully will set inxi on course for its next 10 years. It was starting to get annoying, because some parts of inxi used those spaces, and all newer ones didn't in general. Now it's one behavior throughout the whole program file. 2. Refactored the entire fs exclude for disk used data, and integrated those values into a global tool that is used either to exclude file systems from disk used totals, or to not show uuid/labels for the excluded remote/distributed/overlay type file systems, which in general don't have uuid or labels. |
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Many small updates, enhancements, bug fixes!!! We've been saving them up!! Here
they are!! Don't wait!!
Thanks mr. mazda for many issue finds, and suggestions.
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KNOWN ISSUES BUT CAN'T OR WON'T BE FIXED:
1. Due to unfixable rpm slowdowns, removed package counts for default output for
rpm based systems. We were seeing delays of up to 30+ seconds just to list the
rpm package count, which is absurd, even after the rpm optimizations inxi
already runs. To allow rpm users to get excluded by default for rpm package list
counts, added --pkg flag plus a short message telling them to use that flag to
get the installed package count if they want it.
Changes like this are very unfortunate, but in 2021 for a package manager at
times to require over 30 seconds to generate a trivial installed package list is
just not acceptable. One of the reasons this release was delayed was this was
not an easy decision to make, it's very rare support for a feature is removed
for specific tools due to how badly the tools may perform. Note that whatever
higher level tool is used, like dnf, zypp, it's still the same speed, they all
appear to use the same core engine.
Basically this decision was forced since either inxi looks really bad and slow,
when it's not, or the actual cause was removed from default outputs.
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BUGS:
1. Small bug in nfs blacklist for disk used led to nfs used being added, which
leads to silly used percents. This is corrected.
2. If ram vendor ID failed, inxi would delete the part number. Oops. This was
related to the Mushkin failures.
3. Close to a bug, though not one internally, but to users would appear as one:
ZFS does not act as expected, zpool list did not in fact return the pool size,
which I had always assumed to be the case, but in a very strange decision, does
return something very close to the pool size for mirrors, but NOT for z1 or z2
pools, then it returns the total size of the drives that make up the pool. To
call this strange behavior would be an understatement. The fix was to modify the
logic to use zfs list instead to get the size data. This also makes the drive
total report far more accurate, since it lists usable space now for ZFS as was
always intended. The cause of this was simply that I'd always had access to zfs
mirrors, not z1 or z2 arrays.
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FIXES:
1. OpenSuse and maybe others use kdm3 for Trinity, not kdm, so dm was failing.
2. Going along with fix 1, made kde version detection more robust so may catch
more fringe / corner cases for kde desktops. These were mainly added to correct
Trinity desktop version detections.
3. Mushkin ram vendor ID was failing, that is or should be corrected.
4. Added in /dev/disk/by-id handlers for zpool components, there are several
variants, wwn-, pci-, scsi-, ata-, but they all map to the real /dev drive IDs.
Failure to unmap these led to failing to match components and get size info
etc for zfs.
5. See DOCUMENTATION: 2, language changes for weather feature abuse.
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ENHANCEMENTS:
1. Going along with the rpm issues, added dnf.conf support to yum/dnf repo
types. Not sure how that one was missed, but there it is. This should tighten
repo reports for dnf/yum/zypp types.
2. Added LeftWM. LeftWM confirmed working. Added unverifed detections for:
penrose, 2bwm, 5dwm, catwm, mcwm, monsterwm, snapwm, uwm, wingo, wmfs, wmfs2.
3. Added xfwm as a compositor type, that had bee left out, somewhat on purpose,
since xfwm can run in compositing or non compositing mode. But should show
since many users use compositing mode now.
4. Added OpenMediaVault distro ID and systembase handlers.
5. Going along with zfs bug fix 3, using zfs list data for free, size,
allocated. Trying to understand how zfs developers actually thought about this
is nearly impossible so just used what seems to correspond to reality most.
Also shows raw values for zfs data in RAID along with regular ones to make
clear which is which value.
6. Added more CPU architecture ID matches for AMD Zen and a variety of Intel.
Both vendors finally released some new CPUs and the data became available,
which doesn't always happen quickly.
7. A bunch of new disk vendors and vendor IDs added. Never stops, like the
sands of time, like the ocean waves, like the scuttling crabs scrounding around
in the seaweed in the foam where the outgoing wave left its mark...
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DOCUMENTATION:
1. Added leftwm keybindinigs to inxi-data.txt desktop/wm section. Updated more
wm in that section as well, and list more info on wms for future reference etc.
Also reorganized and more more readable wm section.
2. Help/Man now make more clear that automated requests or excessive use of the
inxi weather feature are not under any circumstance permitted. There had been
some ambiguity and lack of clarity about what abuse is, now it should be more
clear.
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CODE CHANGES:
1. Refactored uptime parser logic, the code and regex was just getting too
messy and difficult to work with and debug, now it works similar to how the
revised BSD parsers run, the regex are pulled apart and made more granular so
a small syntax change ideally won't break the detections as easily.
2. Cleaned up sub cpu_arch() and made all the arch values line up nicely, over
time I notice that almost invariably stuff done to save lines of code makes
code harder to read as the feature expands, so it's generally worth just
unravelling it so it all stacks and is easy to scan/read. Also removed extra
white space in parens, which is something I'm leaning more towards but it's
not worth fixing all at once so it's just done where it's noticed.
That's using:
if ( /test/ ){
rather than:
if (/test){
I believe using more white space helped with Perl comprehension in the
intermediate stages, but is not required anymore and just looks like extra
whitespace now.
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Enhanced features!! Huge BSD upgrades! Bug Fixes!! Elbrus Fixes!! More bluetooth
fixes!! What are you waiting for?!!? A special thanks for significant help, ongoing, leading to a huge boost to BSD support, Stan Vandiver, who did a lot of BSD testing, and setup many remote access systems for testing and development of the latest BSD upgrades. If you're a BSD user, you can thank him for helping to expand BSD support! Take special note of the code folding fixes in Fix 1, those open up possible free software code editors that can be used to work with inxi to more than just Kwrite/Kate, to include scite and geany, nice lightweight code editors. You can't do real work in inxi without code folding, so getting this finally resolved was I think worth it. Also, for the first time ever!! inxi is now using Pledge, well, if OpenBSD::Pledge module is available, which is currently only in OpenBSD, since that's the only system that supports Pledge security, except for Serenity, but inxi doesn't support Serenity. Note that OpenBSD was smart and added OpenBSD::Pledge and OpenBSD::Unveil to Perl Core modules, thus removing any hoop that might stop a Perl program from implementing it. Nice going OpenBSD guys! The addition of OpenBSD softraid support for RAID and CRYPTO types highlights the problem with --raid and --logical, where --raid is really just a subset of Logical volume management. Note that while the hardware RAID feature only lists the actual PCI RAID device, OpenBSD bioctl supports hardware RAID out of the box, something I'd thought of doing in inxi for a few years, but it's too much work, but bioctl has done the work, which is impressive. Can't do much without a lot of debugger data there though, but it's worth being aware of. In this case, since softraid is the primary device, I opted to call Crypto and RAID types all RAID, same as with linear zfs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES BUT CAN'T OR WON'T BE FIXED: 1. FreeBSD: USB drivers. I really gave this a try, but could not get any logic to be stable across systems and varying syntaxes used. Will wait for FreeBSD to add drivers to usbconfig -vl. Note that this makes it not possible to correctly match USB networking devices to their respective IF data, so USB networking IF will fall back to the undetected IF-ID, which means it was found but not connected to a specific hardware device. 2. FreeBSD Battery Report: there are non-objective values for Battery state data in sysctl output, as in minutes remaining, which has no meaning, and percent charge (percent of what? original design capacity? current actual capacity?). If data with voltages, design/current capacity in Ah or Wh, is made available, support will be added. Note that there are 3rd party tools that do supply this data in a usable format, but they are not in core so no point. 3. BSDs All: have found no way to get physical CPU counts. this will lead to odd outputs in some cases, like a 2 cpu system reporting itself as a 2x the actual core counts single CPU, but the data just isn't there as far as I know. Dragonfly in some cases appears to have that data. 4. BSDs All: so far no way to get live per core cpu speeds using a file or fast command query. Thought I'd found a way in FreeBSD but that was not the correct clockrate values, or inconsistently right/wrong, so not using it. Also saw the same issue with max/min frequencies in FreeBSD so removed that item, it's better to show nothing than data that is not reliable or actually not even referring to what it seems to be. 5. BSD SOC Support: An issue poster asked why FreeBSD (but really BSD in general) SOC ARM device, like RaPi, support, was so weak in inxi. The reason is simple: to do SOC ARM device data in a meaningful way requires a complete path based data structure, which the BSDs do not appear to have, at least from what I've seen so far. See Linux's /sys data structures for examples of what is required to add or expand inxi SOC device support in inxi. It's hard even with that type of rich path based data, and without it I won't try. The bright side is inxi runs perfectly on such devices, no errors, which was amazing to see, and spoke volumes of the recent work done to extend support for the BSDs. 6. Perl / inxi, when run as root, shows read error when trying to open a 200 / --w------- permission /sys uevent file for reading. The test works as expected as user, but not as root. Perl will try to read it when run as root even though it has no read permissions, only write. This in reality only manifests on very old /sys, from Debian Etch kernel 2.26 days. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. tput + urxvt / FreeBSD: There appears to be a bug in Arch Linux urxvt that leads to failed terminal/console size from tput. Also while trying to resolve this bug, discovered that if you use "tput cols 2>/dev/null" in FreeBSD, for some inexplicable reason tput puts out defaults 80 cols x 24 rows. Why? Who knows. Added in non numeric tests of output to handle errors from tput instead. The bug appears to be what rxvt reports itself as vs what it is actually running as. This issue isn't present in any other distro I tried, but could just be a new bug in urxvt, don't know. 2. Elbrus CPU: Ongoing issue #197 Elbrus poster gave sample of new 2C3 cpuinfo, that exposed some bugs internally in inxi Elbrus handling, I was using integer values instead of hex for model IDs in the Elbrus logic, which would fail after model 9. 3. BSD dmesg.boot: The logic used for dmesg.boot data processing had errors, and had to be fully redone because of the need to detect in a reliable way the current state of USB drives. This logic now is much more robust and reliable, and no longer relies on using 'uniq' values per line, which would fail in all kinds of situations. 4. OpenBSD USB Speeds: bugs fixed for OpenBSD speeds, these were found during the USB data refactor testing process. 5. BSDs: in some cases, wrong memory used values were being generated, this should be largely corrected now. Also pulled the weird NetBSD use of /proc/meminfo which had wrong data in it, and now use vmstat for all BSDs, which after the used bug fixes, is more reliable for BSDs. 6. All systems: CPU stepping would report as N/A if stepping 0, luckily I came across some systems with an actual stepping: 0, which are not common. 7. FreeBSD: dmidecode sourced L2 cache data failed to show correct totals in some cases. Due to no MT detection possible for FreeBSD currently, these totals will still be wrong, but now it says note; check to let users know. 8. dmidecode: some cases were getting the wrong failure error message, this bug became exposed due to OpenBSD locking /dev/mem even to root, which then failed to show the expected message. This was a bug, and is now corrected. 9. FreeBSD: partition swap size didn't show in at least some cases, that's corrected. 10. Linux Partitions: partitions would let doubled swap items through in several cases, and also failed to create in rare cases matches for hidden partition mapped id's. Finally tracked down the actual cause, when moving the partition filters I'd forgotten to add swap into the filter list, oops. But now it will catch duplicates in several different ways, so that's fine. 11. Unmounted: Failed to properly handle detecting RAID components in the case of lvm, mdraid, it was only working for zfs. This was an accident, and should now be corrected. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Code Folding: Note that this was NOT a bug or failure in inxi, it was a bug in scintilla/scite geany code editors with folding, basically if you commented out logic, without using a space or other marker after the comment #, folding would break in weird ways. Obviously the core scintilla engine should IGNORE the darned # commented out lines, but it doesn't, which is a real bug. But not in inxi. This was however worth working around, because without folding, you can't work on or learn how inxi works, and the only editor I know of in the free software eco-system that can handle folding reasonably accurately was until now Kwrite/Kate code editors, and those have some real, long standing, weaknesses, and bugs around folding that have never been resolved, and yes, did notify them about them, and no, they remain unfixed after years, or they were fixed briefly, then broke again. So it was important to expand the base of possible code editors to more than just the KDE stuff. Fixing this was tedious, but I think worth it. On the bright side, geany/scite folding / unfolding is FAST, and once the code issues that triggered folding failures were resolved, very accurate, much better than Kate's to be honest, though Kate isn't as picky, but Kate's unfold top nodes has been broken more often than it's worked. To avoid this issue, it's also important to configure geany/scite to use a space after the comment when using keyboard shortcuts to comment out lines/blocks. Same goes for Kate/Kwrite, by the way. 2. Battery: Forgot to add battery-force to -v7, which means you would never see the battery line in full output if there was no battery present, this is similar to how raid-forced worked, it was just an oversight which I hadn't noticed until testing the new BSD battery logic. 3. Indentation: small indentation fixes on Sound Server data. Those are visible with -y1, that is. 4. OpenBSD PCI: enabled Device matching to PCI networking device, this required an odd little hack, but seems to be pretty reliable, and allowed me to add driver to PCI device reports as well. Not sure why driver isn't in pcidump -v but it probably will be in the future. Note to self: add in support for that so if they include it in a future release, it will suddenly 'just work', assume they use the same basic syntax as usbdevs -vv output. 5. BSDs: Added in some null data protections for BSDs, which do not always have all the data types found in Linux, those would trigger Perl undefined value errors, which are warnings that inxi failed internally to test for null data in that, but it's hard to know when to do that when the data is basically always there in Linux. 6. Debugger: Added test for required Net::FTP module in debugger, had forgotten to make that test explicit, which led to odd failures. 7. BSDs: nvme detections should be better now. But I have seen no live test system to confirm the fixes work as expected, plus, at least, OpenBSD swaps nvme0 to sd0 internally, so I'm not actually sure how that data will even work, we'll see how that goes. 8. BSDs: oddly, despite using 0x hex numbers almost everywhere, for CPU stepping, the stepping is in decimal, which is even odder because CPU makers list their steppings as hex in many if not most cases. In case this is corrected in the future, if 0x appears before stepping number, will not then try to convert to hex since it already is. 9a. CPU L3: Subtle, probably won't change behaviors, but L3 cache is per physical CPU in every case I've found, so never multiply value by cores for L3. Like everything, this may lead to corner cases being wrong, but that's life, it will also lead to the data being right for most users. 9b. CPU L1: Different L1 syntaxes found so inxi now uses more loose detections, should cover most OpenBSD L1 variants at least. 10. BSDs: inxi was using internal 'sleep' right before reading /proc/cpuinfo, but that was silly for BSDs since cpu speeds there come from sysctl, so the BSD sleeps are now running before sysctl if CPU data feature is required. 11. Too many to remember, but lots of subtle message output changes to make more clear, more accurate, shorter, whatever. 12. USB: a very subtle fix, some devices can be both audio and video, like cameras, but inxi would default to the first detected. Now it checks for both before going to the list of checks, and correctly assigns a type that is both audio and video to the audio and video hashes so both features will show the USB device, not just Audio. 13: BSD: fixes for BSD ifconfig IF status, it was slicing off the full status string, like 'no network' to 'no', which is silly. Now shows full string. 14. OpenBSD: restored USB Hub ports: xx item, I hadn't realized that the data was still there with usbdevs but it required an extra -v, like: usbdevs -vv to trigger, so now the OpenBSD USB ports works fine again. 15. Fedora Xorg: updated --recommends to use the newer split apart xorg utils package names, only xrandr I think needed updating. Thanks Mr. Mazda for keeping up with that stuff! 16. OpenBSD SMART: the actual device being queried turns out to the 'c' partition, the one that represents the entire disk, NOT the main device ID, like sd0, so now inxi tacks on 'c', sd0c, when smartctl runs, and it works fine. So previously SMART report would never have worked in OpenBSD. 17. Partion labels/uuids: in Partitions and Unmounted, does not show label/uuid if fs type is ffs or if fs is a logical type one, like zfs, hammer, and remote fs mounts etc. This cleans up output, since these file system types will never have labels or uuids. 18. Mr Mazda inxi was missing data and showing errors if run in Debian Etch with Perl 5.008, and I realized I'd slipped up and had used the -k option without testing lspci version, but -k was only available in 3.0 in Lenny. But -v turns on -k automatically, so the easy solution was just to remove the -k and leave the -nnv, which is the same thing, but does not cause errors in early lspci. There are also errors with reading as root some /sys uevent files, but upon examination, those had only root write permission, so the perl -r test isn't right. Don't think that can be fixed. See Can't/Won't fix for more. Another issue I noticed was that in some cases Perl seemed to lose track of some hash values in local %trigger in OptionsHandler, and just lose them, thus leading to things like --help --version --recommends not working. Moving %trigger to globals %show and %use fixed that one, but that's weird, no idea what happened, but it works now. Tested in Sarge 3.1, where core modules have to be explicitly installed, they were not included in base Perl install. Kernel 2.4 had some key differences, different lspci syntax, different /proc/partitions, so the block device output and device output is flawed, but otherwise inxi worked fine in Sarge, from 2005! But these issues will not be corrected, kernel 2.24 is just too old, lol. inxi should always run ok in very old systems, like Etch, back to when Perl 5.8 was standard, so bugs like this are always welcome, it's easy to slip up and use something that didn't work in those old systems, then forget to test. 19. Corner case SMART errors, sometimes occur much later in output than inxi expects, this is now corrected and errors should show in smart data no matter where the main error type occured. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Elbrus: Going along with Bug 2, Updated Elbrus microarch to use family 6, assuming models 10, 11, are the same, which they should be since 12 is the same as in family 4. 2. IPMI Sensors: More sensor syntax detections, sensors will never be stable... 3. OpenBSD: Rolled out live battery state feature, they have very good data, simple, but solid, that allows for a quality battery state report. Handles both Wh/Ah, though I am slightly suspicious of the reality of the arithmetic for Ah > Wh conversion, it seems to be too high. That's Ah * Design Voltage. But Linux battery data has the same issue, though I think in most cases, the data is in Wh, so this issue isn't BSD specific. My suspicion is that the voltages used to determine Ah may actually be slightly lower than the listed design voltage, which inxi calls min: but it's actually the design voltage. Unknown if NetBSD data is the same as OpenBSD for battery, was unable to locate any samples, so can't say, if you have a NetBSD laptop that correctly reports battery state in sysctl -a, please file an issue with some sample battery charge/voltage syntax and values, ideally from > 1 system. If the data is complete, it's easy to add support. 4a. BSD USB rev: inxi now emulates USB rev versions for BSD USB speed/rev version data. Note that this is not guaranteed to be right, because USB devices can be different rev versions than the speed they run at, but as far as I could find, the USB revision data is not available in any practical sense, unless I create a complicated recursive tool to build up a snapshot of the usb system and devices from dmesg data, but I already blew a day on that attempt, so will wait for more complete data in the usb tools in future. The rev version is based on the device/hub speed, using a standard USB rev speed mapping. But a 12 Mbps device can be rev 2, not rev 1.1, for example, that is, it's actually a USB 2.0 device, but a slow speed one. 4b. USB Type: Expanded fallback USB device type tests, these are useful for cases where it's either a vendor defined type, or for Open/NetBSD, which do not yet show USB class/subclass data. But it's a good fallback tool, added Mass Storage, expanded detections. 5. BSD Sensors: Going along with Enhancement 3, rolled out live sensors data. Confirmed working in OpenBSD and FreeBSD, not sure about NetBSD, no data, problem with vm testing is no sensors, but don't have any NetBSD hardware installs to verify. Stan gave it a good try, but could not get NetBSD running so far, maybe later. This basically means the -B and -s features are largely feature complete for the BSDs as far as practical, though due to difficulties in getting the data in a consistent clear way, some more advanced features, like gpu temps, which are now available in Linux kernel values and lm-sensors, do not yet appear to be present in the BSDs, though if this changes, the structures are in place to make updates to these logics very easy to implement now. Note that the --sensors-include and --sensors-exclude items, or config items, work fine with this BSD logic, though you have to figure out what exact syntax to use, but that's the same in Linux. 6. OpenBSD Pledge: Yes, that's right, inxi is now Pledged!!! In OpenBSD, anyway, they did a really good job, and the OpenBSD Perl packager made a very nice Perl modules, OpenBSD::Pledge, which was very easy to implement. Now I know what inxi needs to run its features!! So far OpenBSD only, but Pledge seems like a really good idea, so I figured, let's give it a spin, even if it will only currently work on OpenBSD, but that's fine, inxi is pledged as tightly as I could make it, including unpledging features not required post options processing, once inxi knows what it's actually going to be doing. Note that I'm aware of OpenBSD::Unveil, but that's a lot harder to implement due to never really being sure about what files inxi will need to be looking at until well into the logic. I may look at that in the future. 7. Bluetooth Rfkill: Due to ongoing failures in current inxi to show consistent Bluetooth hci report on Linux, added in one last fallback, rfkill state, which allows inxi to always fallback to at least that basic data. Also added in which tool is providing the report mostly, like: Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 and so on. Also integrated into -xxx data, or for down state, the full rfkill report, since that can be quite useful. Note that bluetooth is a real pain for users to debug because you can have: * Bluetooth Service: enabled/disabled * Bluetooth Service: started/stopped * bluetoothctl: start/stop * bt-adapter: start/stop * hciconfig: start/stop * rfkill: software: block/unblock; hardware: block/unblock - however, for hardware, that means a physical button has been pressed to disable it, on the laptop that is. To make matters worse, one tool does not always even know when another tool has changed something, for example, if I rfkill blocked hci0, then unblocked it, hciconfig would keep seeing it as down until it was switched to on with hciconfig explicitly. This is I suspect one reason hciconfig is being dropped, it doesn't know how to listen to the newer tools like bluetoothctl, bt-adapter, or rfkill. 8. OpenBSD: Going along with Code Change 1, now has disk serial (doas/root), more consistent physical block size data, more reliable disk data, and for -Dxxx, duid, if available. Also added disk partition table scheme, aka MBR / GPT. Some of these new items may also work with NetBSD. See also Fix 17, SMART fix for OpenBSD. 9. OpenBSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD: the DiskDataBSD refactor now allows Unmounted partitions report. 10. OpenBSD: added in CPU MT detections using siblings data, I think only OpenBSD and Dragonfly support proper MT cpu core counts. Still no way to get physical cpu counts in OpenBSD or FreeBSD or NetBSD that I am aware of. 11. OpenBSD: added in cpu speed min/max data, that was available in most cases, didn't realize that. 12. BSDs: expanded and made more robust cpu L1/L2/L3 cache detections, now for example, OpenBSD will report its L1/L2/L3 cache without root. FreeBSD requires root since that data is coming from dmidecode. This logic update made BSD L-cache data much more reliable and consistent, and, important, easy to work with. This was directly connected to Code Changes 2 and 3, which made dealing with those data sources a lot easier. Note that L1/L2 cache data if not from OpenBSD will show note: check because it's not possible to determine if it's a multithreaded MT cpu or not, and thus if L1/L2 * core count would so often be totally wrong that inxi won't try to guess, it will just list the single value found, and tell the user to check it themselves. 13. OpenBSD: Added rcctl tool to init tools, I hadn't known about that one, that replaces the fallback default used before, /etc/rc.d. 14. RAM Vendor: Issue #245 raised the point that it would be good to try to show RAM vendor data when the manufactorer field is empty, and since that logic is already present in disk_vendor, it was just matter of researching the product IDs to find the matching patterns for the RAM vendors, the initial list is pretty good, but will need updates now and then to correct errors. Also will override only vendor ID 4 character hex value and see if it can find a better value. 15. OpenBSD RAM: data quality is decent (no vendor/product no, unfortunately). The data is often, but sadly not always, available. I'm not clear why sometimes it isn't, but since OpenBSD also defaults to blocking /dev/mem to even root user, which then blocks dmidecode, this is the only practical way to give basic RAM data for OpenBSD, so that's running fine now, when the data is available, with the added bonus of not needing doas/root. Note that due to the way that this data is present, I can have inxi deduce some things like how many arrays there are, and then guess at overall capacity, max stick size, and so on, but all Array-x: values are followed by note: est because they are never based on hard data, just extrapolations. I debated if inxi should even show the guesses, but I think by saying note: est after each Array-x: item, it's pretty clear that it's not hard data, and it does give an idea roughly. I made an initial guess at > 1 ram array but found no data samples to let me see if my guess was right or not, so > 1 array remains roughly theoretical until shown to work or not work empirically. While NetBSD sometimes has the system ram data in a similar way that OpenBSD does in dmesg.boot, it varies too much, and is too inconsistent. There are not enough data samples with good consistent data, and the samples I did see suggested that it would take too much code and convoluted logic to handle the variations, so I'm leaving this one alone. Also, NetBSD probably doesn't block /dev/mem so dmidecode should work fine. 16. Using system clang version info for OpenBSD kernel compiler, the assumption being that a BSD is an OS, so the Clang version it shipped with would be the clang version that compiled the kernel. Please correct if this is wrong. 17. OpenBSD RAID: support added for softraid, including for drive storage totals, unmounted raid component detections. Plugged in pretty smoothly, able to generate a partial report for non root, and shows message if not root. 18. VM detections upgraded, particularly for BSDs, now includes vmm, hvm, hyper-v, kvm. Not all of these would have been detected before. Also cleaned up vm logic, moved all vm detections into $dboot{'machine-vm'}, and only use the first found item. 19. Disk Vendors!!: Yes, last, but not least!! More disk vendors, vendor ID matches!! Yep. What else can I say? Eternity? Man's quest for something that cannot be found, yet these strivings never cease, here manifested by always new vendors and ID matches! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Very significant ongoing upgrades to the docs in inxi-perl/docs/, particularly in inxi-values.txt, inxi-resources.txt, and inxi-data.txt. These are now increasingly useful, and I am trying to keep in particular inxi-values.txt up to date as a primary reference for various features, though it will always lag, because that's how it is, lol. 2. Cleaned up changelog, made 80 cols wide for text, bars, etc, made numbered lists and headers consistent, but otherwise did not change any of the actual content. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE CHANGES: 1. Complete rewrite of BSD disk/partition data tools, now there is one core tool that generates a mega-disk/partition hash, which is then used for all features that need partition/disk data. This worked out super well, and allowed new features like BSD Unmounted disk data to be generated for the first time ever, along with filling in various block device fields that were missing before. 2. Change 1 also went along with a refactor of dmesg data tool for BSDs, which allowed for much more granular data generation, along with a complex %dboot hash which stores all sub types as well as the main full dataset. This allowed inxi to stop looping through all of dmesg data each time a feature needed it. Now all the data types are assigned if required by a feature, and only then. This, along with change 1, worked really well. See also Bug 3, which mandated completely changing how dmesg.boot and dmesg live data were / are merged, the result is far more robust now, and far less prone to error. 3. Similar to dmesg changes, used same methods for sysctl data, now all the data is assigned to %sysctl data structure based on if needed or not, so it only does the assignments one time, in one location. Much cleaner code this way, and allows for testing set/unset substructures, like $sysctl{'cpu'}. 4. The %dboot and %sysctl refactors went so well that I switched the core USB and Devices to also use %usb and %devices structures. These updates let me dump a lot of global hashes and arrays, and leaned everything down a lot, and also removed basically all the testing loops for these data types, now the Item features just test to see if a reference to the specific type exists, if it does, it has data, if not, it doesn't, this is a lot easier to manage. 5. Ongoing: moving related subroutines to Packages, the goal is to have pretty much all related subroutines (functions) contained in parent classes/packages, makes it easier to maintain. 6. Ongoing: making all internal package tools have similar sub names, getting rid of the specific names for output and data generator functions. This makes each Item Generator increasingly like all the others, as much as practical. 7. A big one, renamed all the feature generators to be XxxxxItem, instead of XxxxData, which was colliding as a package name with actual data generator tools, now all the Feature generators are [Feature]Item, and all the Data generators have Data type names where relevant. This avoided in particular the silly case where I was relying on case to differentiate UsbData and USBData, feature vs data generator. 8. As part of the move to data hash global structures, also moved as many of the top global scalars and hashes and arrays to these now much more heavily utilized global hashes, like %alerts, %use, %fake, %force, and so on. There are now far fewer globals running than before, and where it makes sense, I keep moving them into global hashes, and giving the global hashes more work to do. 9. Significantly expanded list of debuggers for specific data types always available, see docs/inxi-values.txt for list of options there. Decided for rapid development, it was too much of a pain to always be uncommenting the debuggers, so now am uncommenting, adding to @dbg supported items, then documenting. I guess this means the @dbg items are more or less stable and consistent now, give or take. 10. Refactored UsbData and DeviceData, for in particular the BSDs, to be much more robust and to rely less on very fragile regex parsing patterns, takes more lines of code, but better than having the detections break every other BSD release. This was part of the %device and %usb refactors as well. 11. Fixed system_files() too, which was really silly logic, it used a global packed hash of system files, then would do a function call for the paths when required, which was redundant since the values were already in a hash which could be used directly. This was a throwback to inxi gawk/bash, where hashes were not really used in this way, and the logic had been translated to Perl without thinking about it, but once I thought about it, I realized how silly that was. This must have knocked off a good 50 or more unnecessary, and always expensive, function calls. |
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Bugs!! Fixes! Spring cleaning!
Because these are either newly created, or newly discovered, bugs,
this release was pushed as early as possible to get them fixed asap.
BUGS:
1. Desktop: Lumina detection had a syntax error which made it not work.
This has been broken for a while.
2. Logical: if not root, and if LUKS / bcache detected, failed to load
proc_partitions, which generates error on --logical --admin since the
required components data was not loaded. This was an oversight.
3. The 3.3.02 ShellData refactor created a bug for console IRC, showed
shell, not irc client, name, and set default shell data which also
showed.
4. Console IRC tty: there was also an older bug that made -S, -G
not work consistently, and there were errors that had been missed
for many years in that logic. These should all be corrected, console
irc out of display, or in display as root, should now show tty info,
tty size in -G.
FIXES:
1. Memory: restored $bsd_type block on /proc/meminfo and force NetBSD
to use a corrected vmstat. This leaves that block of logic to correct
the NetBSD oddities in meminfo, but it may fix future isses that popup.
2. -Sxxx man page item incorrectly said XDG_VTNR was systemd/linux, it's
not, it's various things, GhostBSD has it, for example. See what you get
for believing what people say!
3. Logical: added in N/A for null maj-min in --logical report. While
bug 2 triggered those errors, there could be future cases where maj-min
are null, like BSD lvm data etc.
ENHANCEMENTS:
1. Going along with Fix 1, added '--force meminfo' in case you really want that.
2. Distro: System Base: Added TrueNAS detection.
3. Package Data: Added mport [MidnightBSD] type. That requires root to run
for some odd reason, so won't see the best output if not root.
CHANGES:
1. Moved logical to -v7 from -v8, it's stable enough now.
CODE CHANGES:
1. Moved get_tty_number and get_tty_console_irc to ShellData:tty_number
and ShellData::tty_console_irc.
ShellData::tty_number was being loaded several times, added
$loaded{'tty-number'} test, and made client{'tty-number'} to store value.
tty_console_irc changed to console_irc_tty, which is what it gets, removed
hacks and made it load once and store result in client hash.
2. Optimization: retested sub vs package::method and they run at exactly
the same time, give or take, so moving more stuff into packages to make
it easier to maintain.
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Huge upgrade!! Bug Fixes!! Refactors!!! BSDs!!! More BSDs!!!
raspberry pi!! New Features!!! Enhanced old features!!! Did I
mention bluetooth?! USB? Audio? No? well, all hugely upgraded!
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BUGS:
1. Sadly, 3.3.01 went out with a bug, forgot to remove a debugger,
resulted in hardcoded kernel compiler version always showing.
Note that there is a new inxi-perl/docs/inxi-bugs.txt file to
track such bugs, and matched to specific tagged releases so you
know the line number and items to update to fix it.
2. Typo in manjaro system base match resulted in failing to report
system base as expected.
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KNOWN ISSUES BUT CAN'T OR WON'T BE FIXED:
1. OpenBSD made fvwm -version output an error along with the
version, and not in the normal format for standard fvwm, this
is just too complicated to work around for now, though it could
be in theory by creating a dedicated fvwm-oBSD item in
program_values. But that kind of granularity gets too hard to track,
and they are likely to change or fix this in the future anyway.
Best is they just restore default -version output to what it is
elsewhere, not nested in error outputs.
2. Discovered an oddity, don't know how widespread this
is, but Intel SSDs take about 200 milliseconds to get the sys
hwmon based drive temps, when it should take under a
millisecond, this may be a similar cause as those drives having
a noticeable SMART report delay, not sure. This is quite
noticeable since 200 ms is about 15% of the total execution
time on my test system.
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FIXES:
1. For --recommends, added different rpm SUSE xdpyinfo package name.
2. Distro Data: added double term filter for lsb-release due to sometimes
generating repeated names in distro.
3. Packages: fix for appimage package counts.
4. Desktop: fixed ID for some wm when no xprop installed, fallback to
using @ps_cmd detections, which usually work fine.
5a. When swap used was 0, showed N/A, fixed to correctly show 0 KiB.
5b. If no swap devices found, BSDs were not correctly showing
no swap data found message. Corrected.
6a. Bluetooth: Removed hcidump from debugger, in some cases, that will
just hang endlessly. Also wrapped bluetoothctl and bt-adapter debugger
data collection with @ps_cmd bluetooth running test. Only run if
bluetooth service is running.
6b. Bluetooth: running detections have to be very strict, only
bluetoothd, not bluetooth, the latter can show true when bluetoothd
is not running, and did in my tests.
7. USB: with Code Change 1, found a few places where fallback usb type
detections were creating false matches, which resulted in say,
bluetooth devices showing up as network devices due to the presence
of the word 'wireless' in the device description. These matches are
all updated and revised to be more accurate and less error prone.
8. Battery: an oversight, had forgotten to have percent used of
available capacity, which made Battery data hard to decipher, now
it shows the percent of available total, as well as the condition
percent, so it's easier to understand the data now, and hopefully
more clear.
9a. OpenBSD changed usbdevs output format sometime in the latest
releases, which made the delicate matching patterns fail. Updated
to handle both variants. They also changed pcidump -v formatting
at some point, now inxi will try to handle either. Note that
usbdevs updates also work fine on NetBSD.
9b. FreeBSD also changed their pciconf output in beta 13.0, which
also broke the detections completely, now checks for old and new
formats. Sigh. It should not take this much work to parse tools
whose output should be consistent and reliable. Luckily I ran
the beta prior to this release, or all pci device detections
would simply have failed, without fallback.
9c. Dragonfly BSD also changed an output format, in vmstat, that
made the RAM used report fail. Since it's clearly not predictable
which BSD will change support for which vmstat options, now just
running vmstat without options, and then using processing logic
to determine what to do with the results.
10. It turns out NetBSD is using /proc/meminfo, who would have
thought? for memory data, but they use it in a weird way that
could result in either negative or near 0 ram used. Added in
some filters to not allow such values to print, now it tries
to make an educated guess about how much ram the system is
really using based on some tests.
11. Something you'd only notice if testing a lot, uptime failed
when the uptime was < 1 minute, it had failed to handle the seconds
only option, now it does, seconds, minutes, hours:minutes,
days hours:minutes, all work.
12. Missed linsysfs type to exclude in partitons, that was a partner
to linprocfs type, both are BSD types.
13. Added -ww to ps arguments, that stops the cutting width to terminal
size default behavior in BSDs, an easy fix, wish I'd known about
that a long time ago.
15. gpart seems to show sizes in bytes, not the expected KiB, so
that's now handled internally. Hopefully that odd behavior won't
randomly change in the future, sigh.
16. Fixed slim dm detection, saw instance where it's got slim.pid
like normal dms, not the slim.lock which inxi was looking for, so
now inxi looks for both, and we're all happy!
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ENHANCEMENTS:
1. Added in something that should have been there all along, now inxi
validates the man page download as well as the self, this avoids
corrupted downloads breaking the man.
2. Init: added support for shepherd init system.
3. Distro Data: added support for guix distro ID; added support for
NomadBSD, GhostBSD, HardenedBSD system base. GhostBSD also shows the main
package version for the distro version ID, which isn't quite the
same as the version you download, but it's close. Also added os-release
support for BSDs, using similar tests as for linux distros, that
results in nicer outputs for example for Dragonfly BSD.
4. Package Data: added guix/scratch [venom]/kiss/nix package managers.
Update for slackware 15 package manager data directory relocation,
now handles either legacy current or future one.
5. Repos: added scratch/kiss/nix-channels; Added GhostBSD, HardenedBSD
pkg repos.
6. USB Data: added usbconfig. That's FreeBSD's, and related systems.
7. Device Data: Added pcictl support, that's NetBSD's, I thought
inxi had supported that, but then I remembered last time I tried to
run netBSD in a vm, I couldn't get it figured out. Now debugged and
working reasonably well.
8. Raspberry Pi 3, 4: ethernet nic now detected; wifi device,
which is on a special mmcnr type, now works, that stopped working in
pi 3, due to the change, now it's handled cleanly. Also added support
for pi bluetooth, which lives on a special serial bus, not usb.
For Raspberry Pi OS, added system base detections, which are tricky.
Also matched mmcnr devices to IF data, which was trickyy as well.
Note that as far as I could discover, only pi puts wifi on mmcnr.
9. Bluetooth: due to deprecated nature of the fine hciconfig
utility, added in support for bt-adapter, which also allows matching
of bluetooth data to device data, but is very sparse in info
supplied compared to hciconfig. bluetoothctl does not have enough
data to show the hci device, so it's not used, since inxi can't
match the bluetooth data to the device (no hci[x]). This should help
the distros that are moving away from hciconfig, in particular,
AUR is only way arch users can get hciconfig, which isn't ideal.
10. New tool and feature, ServiceData, this does two things,
as cross platform as practical, show status of bluetooth service,
this should help a lot in support people debugging bluetooth problems,
since you have bluetooth enabled but down, or up, disabled, and you
can also have the device itself down or up, so now it shows all that
data together for when it's down, but when the device is up, it just
shows the device status since the other stuff is redundant then.
In -Sa, it now shows the OS service manager that inxi detected
using a bunch of fallback tests, that's useful to admins who
are on a machine they don't know, then you can see the service
manager to use, like rc-service, systemctl, service, sv, etc.
11. Big update for -A: Sound Servers: had always been really
just only ALSA, now it shows all detected sound servers, and whether
they are running or not. Includes: ALSA, OSS, PipeWire, PulseAudio,
sndio, JACK. Note that OSS version is a guess, might be wrong source
for the version info.
12. Added USB device 'power:' item, that's in mA, not a terrible
thing to have listed, -xxx. This new feature was launched cross
platform, which is nice. Whether the BSD detections will break
in the future of course depends on whether they change the output
formats again or not. Also added in USB more chip IDs, which can
be useful. For BSDs, also added in a synthetic USB rev, taken
from the device/hub speeds. Yes, I know, USB 2 can have low speed,
full speed, or high speed, and 1.1 can have low and full speeds,
so you actually can't tell the USB revision version from the speeds,
but it's close enough.
13. Made all USB/Device data the same syntax and order, more
predictable, bus, chip, class IDs all the same now.
14. Added in support for hammer and null/nullfs file system types,
which trigger 'logical:' type device in partitions, that's also
more correct than the source: Err-102 that used to show, which
was really just a flag to alert me visibly that the partition
type detection had simply failed internally. Now for detected
types, like zfs tank/name or null/nullfs, it knows they are
logical structures.
15. Expanded BSD CPU data, where available, now can show L1/L2/
L3 cache, cpu arch, stepping, family/model ids, etc, which is
kind of nifty, although, again, delicate fragile rules that
will probably break in the future, but easier to fix now.
16. By an old request, added full native BSD doas support.
That's a nice little tool, and it plugged in fairly seamlessly
to existing sudo support. Both the internal doas/sudo stuff
should work the same, and the detection of sudo/doas start
should work the same too.
17a. Shell/Parent Data: Big refactor of the shell start/parent logic,
into ShellData which helped resolve some issues with running-in
showing shell name, not vt terminal or program name. Cause of that
is lots of levels of parents before inxi could reach the actual
program that was running inxi. Solution was to change to a longer
loop, and let it iterate 8 times, until it finds something that is
not a shell or sudo/doas/su type parent, this seems to work quite
well, you can only make it fail now if you actually try to do it on
purpose, which is fine.
This was very old logic, and carried some mistakes and
redundancies that made it very hard to understand, that's cleaned
up now. Also restored the old (login) value, which shows
when you use your normal login account on console, some system
will also now show (sudo,login) if the login user sudos inxi,
but that varies system to system.
17b. BSD running-in: Some of the BSDs now support the -f flag
for ps, which made the parent logic for running-in possible for
BSDs, which was nice. Some still don't support it, like OpenBSD
and NetBSD, but that's fine, inxi tests, and if no support detected,
just shows tty number. Adding in more robust support here cleaned
up some redundant logic internally as well.
17c. Updated terminal and shell ID detections, there's quite a few
new terminals this year, and a new shell or two. Those are needed
for more reliable detections of when the parent is NOT a shell,
which is how we find what it is.
18. Added ctwm wm support, that's the new default for NetBSD,
based on twm, has version numbers.
19. Upgraded BSD support for gpart and glabel data, now should
catch more more often.
20. For things like zfs raid, added component size, that doesn't
always work due to how zfs refers to its components, but it often
does, which is better than never before.
21. To make BSD support smoother, got rid of some OpenBSD only
rules, which in fact often apply to NetBSD as well. That may
lead to some glitches, but overall it's better to totally stay
away from OpenBSD only tests, and all BSD variant tests, and
just do dynamic testing that will work when it applies, and
not when it doesn't. In this case, added ftp downloader support
for netBSD by removing the openBSD only flag for that item.
There's a bit of a risk there in a sense since if different ftp
programs with different options were to be the fallback for something
else, it might get used, but that's fine, it's a corner case, better
to have them all work now than to worry about weird future things.
But limiting it to only BSDs should get rid of most of the problem.
vmstat and optical drive still use net/openbsd specifics because
it is too tricky to figure out it out in any more dynamic way.
22. For -Sxxx, added if systemd, display, virtual terminal number.
Could be useful to debug subtle issues, if the user is for example
not running their desktop in vt 7, the default for most systems.
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CHANGES:
1. Moved battery voltage to -Bx output, the voltage is quite
important to know since that is the key indicator of battery state.
If voltage is within .5 volts of specified minimum, shows voltage
for -B since that's a prefail condition, it's getting close to
death.
2. In partitions and raid, when the device was linear raid logical
type layout, it said, no-raid, when it should be 'linear', that's
now cleaner and more correct.
3. When running-in is a tty value, it will now show the entire
tty ID, minus the '/dev/tty', this will be more precise, and also
may resolve cases where tty was fully alpha, no numbers, previously
inxi filtered out everything that was not a number, but that can
in some tty types remove critical tty data, so now it will show:
running-in:
tty 2 [not changed]; tty pts/2 [adds pts/]; tty E2 [adds the E];
tty rx [would have not shown at ll before]
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CODE CHANGES:
NOTE: unlike the previous refactors, a lot of these changes were
done to make inxi more maintainable, which means, slightly less
optimized, which has been my preference in the past, but if the
stuff can't be maintained, it doesn't matter how fast it runs!
These changes have really enhanced the quality of the code and
made it a lot easier to work with. It's also now a lot easier to
add debuggers, force/fake data switches, etc, so it gets done,
unlike before, when it was a pain, so it got skipped, and then
caused bugs because of stray debuggers left in place, and so on.
The bright side is while reading up on this, I learned that using
very large subs is much more efficient than many small ones,
which I've always felt was the case, and it is, so the style
used internally in inxi proves to be the best one for optimizations.
These refactors, ongoing, have now touched at least 1/3, almost
1/2, of the entire inxi codebase, so the stuff is getting more
and more consistent and up to date, but given how old the logic
is in places, there will be more refactors in the future, and
maybe once the code is easier to maintain, some renewed
optimizations!, if we can find anything that makes sense, like
passing array/hash references back to the caller, already the
first half is done, passing references to the sub/method always.
The second part is started, using the Benchmark Perl module,
which really speeds up testing and helps avoid pointless tweaks
that do little re speed improvements.
I could see with some care some areas where working on data
directly via references could really speed things up, but it's
hard to write and read that type of code, but it's already being
done in the recursive data and output logics, and a few other
places.
1. Large refactor of USBData, that was done in part to help make
it work for BSDs better, but also to get it better organized.
This refactor also made all the device items, like -A,-G,-N,-E
use the same methods for creating USB output, previously they
had used a hodgepodge of methods, some super old, it was not
possible to add USB support more extensively for BSDs without
this change.
Also added in some fallback usb type detection tools using
several large online collections of that info to see what possible
matching patterns could catch more devices and correctly match
them to their type, which is the primary way now that usb output
per type is created. This really helps with BSDs, though BSD
usb utilities suffer from less data than lsusb so they don't always
get device name strings in a form where they can be readily ID'ed,
but it's way better than it was before, so that's fine!
Moved all previous methods of detecting if a card/device was USB
into USBData itself so it would all be in one place, and easier
to maintain.
All USB tools now use bus_id_alpha for sorting, and all now
sort as well, that was an oversight, previously the BSD usb
tools were not sorted, but those have been enhanced a lot, so
sorting on alpha synthetic bus ids became possible.
Removed lsusb as a BSD option, it's really unreliable, and the data
is different, and also varies a lot, it didn't really work at all
in Dragonfly, or had strange output, so lsusb is now a linux only
item.
2. Moved various booleans that were global to %force, %loaded, and
some to the already present, but lightly used, %use hashes. It was
getting too hard to add tests etc, which was causing bugs to happen.
Yes, using hashes is slower than hardcoding in the boolean scalars,
but this change was done to improve maintainability, which is starting
to matter more.
3. Moved several sets of subs to new packages, again, to help with
debugging and maintainability. MemoryData, redone in part to
handle the oddities with NetBSD reporting of free, cached, and
buffers, but really just to make it easier to work with overall.
Also moved kernel parameter logic to KernelParameters, gpart logic
to GpartData, glabel logic to GlabelData, ip data IpData, check_tools
to CheckTools, which was also enhanced largely, and simplified,
making it much easier to work with.
4. Wrapped more debugger logic in $fake{data} logic, that makes
it harder to leave a debugger uncommented, now to run it, you have
to trigger it with $fake{item} so the test runs, that way even if
I forget to comment it out, it won't run for regular user.
5. Big update to docs in branch inxi-perl/docs, those are now
much more usable for development. Updated in particular
inxi-values.txt to be primary reference doc for $fake, $dbg,
%force, %use, etc types and values. Also updated inxi-optimization.txt
and inxi-resources.txt to bring them closer to the present.
Created inxi-bugs.txt as well, which will help to know which known
bugs belonged to which frozen pools. These bugs will only refer
to bugs known to exist in tagged releases in frozen pool distros.
6. For sizes, moved most of the sizing to use main::translate_size,
this is more predictable, though as noted, these types of
changes make inxi a bit slower since it moved stuff out of inline
to using quick expensive sub calls, but it's a lot easier to
maintain, and that's getting to be more important to me now.
7. In order to catch live events, added in dmesg to dmesg.boot data
in BSDs, that's the only way I could find to readily detect
usb flash drives that were plugged in after boot. Another hack,
these will all come back to bite me, but that's fine, the base
is easier to work on and debug now, so if I want to spend time
revisiting the next major version BSD releases, it will be easier
to resolve the next sets of failures.
8. A big change, I learned about the non greedy operator for
regex patterns, ?, as in, .*?(next match rule), it will now
go up only to the next match rule. Not knowing this simple
little thing made inxi use some really convoluted regex to
avoid such greedy patterns. Still some gotchas with ?, like
it ignores following rules that are zero or 1, ? type, and
just treats it as zero instances. But that's easy to work with.
9. Not totally done, but now moved more to having set data
tools set their $loaded{item} value in get data, not externally,
that makes it easier to track the stuff. Only where it makes
sense, but there's a lot of those set/get items, they should
probably all become package/classes, with set/get I think.
10. Optimized reader() and grabber() and set_ps_aux_data(), all
switched from using grep/map to using for loops, that means
inxi doesn't have to go through each array 2x anymore, actually
4x in the case of set_ps_aux_data(). This saved a visible
amount of execution time, I noticed this lag when running
pinxi through NYTProf optimizer, there was a quite visible
time difference between grabber/reader and the subshell
time, these optimizations almost removed that difference,
meaning only the subshell now really takes any time to run.
Optimized url_cleaner and data_cleaner in RepoData, those
now just work directy on the array references, no returns.
Ran some more optimization tests, but will probably hold off
on some of them, for example, using cleaner() by reference is
about 50% faster than by copy, but redoing that requires
adding in many copies from read only things like $1, so
the change would lead to slightly less clean code, but may
revisit this in the future, we'll see.
But in theory, basically all the core internal tools that
take a value and modify it should do that by reference
purely since it's way faster, up to 10x.
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