Linux HW Info
Introduction
If you need to build a new PC, you need to read the manufacturer's specifications and utilize some tools to check the hardware compatible, such as PCPartPicker.
Once you done, you need to utilize some software tool to know your hardware. It's the goal of the blog post, I will show how to do it.
System Overview
$ neofetch
██████████████████ ████████ gapry@Y410P
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██████████████████ ████████ OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
██████████████████ ████████ Host: 20216 Lenovo IdeaPad Y410P
████████ ████████ Kernel: 5.15.7-1-MANJARO
████████ ████████ ████████ Uptime: 21 hours, 22 mins
████████ ████████ ████████ Packages: 3350 (pacman), 2 (nix-default), 7 (flatpak), 8
████████ ████████ ████████ Shell: fish 3.3.1
████████ ████████ ████████ Resolution: 1920x1080
████████ ████████ ████████ DE: Plasma 5.23.4
████████ ████████ ████████ WM: KWin
████████ ████████ ████████ Theme: Breeze Light [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
████████ ████████ ████████ Icons: breeze [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3]
████████ ████████ ████████ Terminal: tmux
CPU: Intel i7-4700MQ (8) @ 3.400GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
GPU: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor
Memory: 3410MiB / 7866MiB
CPU
$ sudo lshw -C CPU
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 4
bus info: cpu@0
version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz
serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
slot: U3E1
size: 2481MHz
capacity: 3400MHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 100MHz
capabilities: lm fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp x86-64 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm cpuid_fault epb invpcid_single pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid xsaveopt dtherm ida arat pln pts md_clear flush_l1d cpufreq
configuration: cores=4 enabledcores=4 threads=8
Memory
$ sudo lshw -short -C memory
H/W path Device Class Description
=======================================================
/0/0 memory 128KiB BIOS
/0/4/b memory 32KiB L1 cache
/0/4/c memory 256KiB L2 cache
/0/4/d memory 6MiB L3 cache
/0/a memory 32KiB L1 cache
/0/2a memory 8GiB System Memory
/0/2a/0 memory DIMM [empty]
/0/2a/1 memory DIMM [empty]
/0/2a/2 memory 8GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)
/0/2a/3 memory DIMM [empty]
Storage
$ lsblk -o KNAME,TYPE,SIZE,MODEL
KNAME TYPE SIZE MODEL
loop0 loop 89.2M
loop1 loop 99.4M
loop2 loop 55.5M
loop3 loop 99.4M
loop4 loop 4K
loop5 loop 164.8M
loop6 loop 65.2M
loop7 loop 66.7M
sda disk 238.5G TS256GSSD340
sda1 part 238.2G
sda2 part 256M
sr0 rom 1024M HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GU70N
GPU
$ sudo lshw -numeric -C display
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GK107M [GeForce GT 750M] [10DE:FE4]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation [10DE]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:34 memory:c0000000-c0ffffff memory:90000000-9fffffff memory:a0000000-a1ffffff ioport:4000(size=128) memory:c1080000-c10fffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:416]
vendor: Intel Corporation [8086]
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 06
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:31 memory:c2000000-c23fffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:5000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
Network Card
$ sudo lshw -class network -short
H/W path Device Class Description
=======================================================
/0/100/1c/0 enp7s0 network QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet
/0/100/1c.4/0 wlp8s0 network Centrino Wireless-N 2230
Phoronix Test Suite
$ yay -S phoronix-test-suite
$ phoronix-test-suite list-tests
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark build-linux-kernel
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark build-llvm
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark rocksdb