Re: sysinfo crate

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2025, pin wrote:
> Now with text ...
>
> Hi,
>
> The sysinfo crate just added support for NetBSD, got this from the main dev about one hour ago.
>
> https://github.com/GuillaumeGomez/sysinfo/issues/631#issuecomment-3546953354
>
> Any comments on his questions?
>
> Not done in this PR:
> - Product/Motherboard information seems to not work and is incomplete
> - Temperature information is not retrieved
> - Process::open_files
>
> For 3, I belive we need xdg-open from the xdg-utils package. At least that's what I usually use.
>
> For 2, I got the suggestion from @wiz to point him at
> https://github.com/0-wiz-0/rust-envsys/blob/main/README.md
>
> For 1, I'm aware of:
> ~> sysctl hw.machine_arch hw.model hw.ncpu hw.usermem64
> hw.machine_arch = x86_64
> hw.model = Intel 686-class
> hw.ncpu = 4
> hw.usermem64 = 9703772160
>
> But that doesn't give product/motherboard.
>
> Any other suggestions/ideas?

On x86 try machdep.dmi:

# sysctl machdep.dmi
machdep.dmi.system-vendor = Lenovo
machdep.dmi.system-product = ThinkSystem SR530 -[7X08CTO1WW]-
machdep.dmi.system-version = 08
machdep.dmi.system-serial = XXXXXXX
machdep.dmi.system-uuid = 9964d746-85d1-11e8-b364-xxxxxxxxxxxx
machdep.dmi.bios-vendor = Lenovo
machdep.dmi.bios-version = -[TEE186H-4.21]-
machdep.dmi.bios-date = 20250428
machdep.dmi.board-vendor = Lenovo
machdep.dmi.board-product = -[7X08CTO1WW]-
machdep.dmi.board-version = 08
machdep.dmi.board-serial = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
machdep.dmi.board-asset-tag = none
machdep.dmi.chassis-vendor = Lenovo
machdep.dmi.chassis-version = none
machdep.dmi.chassis-serial = XXXXXXX
machdep.dmi.chassis-asset-tag = none
machdep.dmi.processor-vendor = Intel(R) Corporation
machdep.dmi.processor-version = Intel(R) Xeon(R) Bronze 3104 CPU @ 1.70GHz
machdep.dmi.processor-frequency = 1700 MHz

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Stephen