<div dir="ltr">I found the answer!<div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px">there is a phrase in the lshw manpage that says -short is "very much like the output of HP-UX's ioscan.'</p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px">A websearch for 'HP-UX's ioscan' brings up it's man page which states:</p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><i>hw path</i> A numerical string of hardware components, notated<br>sequentially from the bus address to the device<br>address. Typically, the initial number is<br>appended by slash (<b>/</b>), to represent a bus<br>converter (if required by your machine), and<br>subsequent numbers are separated by periods (<b>.</b>).<br>Each number represents the location of a hardware<br>component on the path to the device.<br></p></div><div><br></div><div>Could someone explain to me what 'the location of a hardware component' means?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I was wondering, I can run lshw with the -short option and it gives me a list:<div><div><br></div><div>H/W path Device Class Description</div><div>============================================</div><div> system Computer</div><div>/0 bus Motherboard</div><div>/0/1 memory 3888MiB System memory</div><div>/0/6 processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+</div><div>/0/0 memory RAM memory</div><div>etc...</div><div><br></div><div>does anyone know what a 'H/W path' is?</div><div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div>
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