smbios missing in report for Raspberry Pi 4

[pizzapim]

Describe the bug

The smbios part of the report is missing for my Raspberry Pi 4 system. This makes it hard for me to check whether the machine is a Raspberry Pi. I don't think smbios is available because dmidecode also reports an error. Perhaps lshw can be used to similar data?

Full report:
facter.json

[brianmcgee]

Thanks for the feedback. You won't get SMBIOS info on ARM processors.

I'll look at lshw. I've received a couple of suggestions for alternatives to hwinfo, which I need to review this week.

[brianmcgee]

@pizzapim what do you mean when you say that lshw can be used to get similar data? I don't have access to a Pi 4 to check it's output. Could you provide a dump?

[Mic92]

We can just read it for from device-tree:

[root@matchbox:~]# cat /proc/device-tree/model
Pine64 Rock64

[pizzapim]

Pretty sure lshw does that under the hood as well.

[Mic92]

Yes. This is where I got the idea from.