'unknown' devices in hwinfo

[audiobabble]

Hi all,

Fairly new user of Debian coming from a background of many years Windows use.

I have an install of Debian 12 done via the net installer and to all intents and purposes everything on my system appears to be running well.

Just out of curiosity I though it check hwinfo to see what drivers I might be missing.

First time I've done this (I look upon it as a 'read-only' equivalent of device manager in Windows).

Here's what I get:

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cpu:
                       Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz, 1266 MHz
                       Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz, 400 MHz
                       Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz, 400 MHz
                       Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz, 400 MHz
keyboard:
                       Logitech Unifying Receiver
  /dev/input/event7    Razer Blade Stealth (Late 2019)
mouse:
  /dev/input/mice      Razer Blade Stealth (Late 2019)
                       Logitech Unifying Receiver
  /dev/input/mice      Contour Design ShuttlePro v2
  /dev/input/mice      CUST0001:00 06CB:CDA3 Mouse
  /dev/input/mice      CUST0001:00 06CB:CDA3 Touchpad
monitor:
                       LQ133M1JW41 LCD Monitor
graphics card:
                       nVidia TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q]
                       Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7
sound:
                       Intel Ice Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller
storage:
                       Samsung Electronics Non-Volatile memory controller
network:
  wlo1                 Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201
network interface:
  lo                   Loopback network interface
  wlo1                 Ethernet network interface
disk:
  /dev/nvme0n1         Samsung Electronics Disk
  /dev/sdb             USB SanDisk 3.2Gen1
  /dev/sdc             Sonnics USB 3.0
  /dev/sda             SSD Disk
                       JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron JMS578 SATA 6Gb/s
                       ASMedia Ugreen Storage Device
partition:
  /dev/nvme0n1p1       Partition
  /dev/nvme0n1p2       Partition
  /dev/nvme0n1p3       Partition
  /dev/nvme0n1p4       Partition
  /dev/nvme0n1p5       Partition
  /dev/nvme0n1p6       Partition
  /dev/nvme0n1p7       Partition
  /dev/nvme0n1p8       Partition
  /dev/nvme0n1p9       Partition
  /dev/nvme0n1p10      Partition
  /dev/sdb1            Partition
  /dev/sdb2            Partition
  /dev/sdc1            Partition
  /dev/sdc2            Partition
  /dev/sda1            Partition
usb controller:
                       Intel Ice Lake Thunderbolt 3 USB Controller
                       Intel Ice Lake-LP USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller
bios:
                       BIOS
bridge:
                       Intel Ice Lake-LP LPC Controller
                       Intel Ice Lake Thunderbolt 3 PCI Express Root Port #0
                       Intel Ice Lake-LP Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers
                       Intel PCI bridge
                       Intel Ice Lake-LP PCI Express Root Port #9
                       Intel Ice Lake Thunderbolt 3 PCI Express Root Port #1
hub:
                       Genesys Logic Hub
                       Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
                       Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
                       Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
                       Genesys Logic USB3.1 Hub
                       Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
memory:
                       Main Memory
bluetooth:
                       Intel Bluetooth Device
unknown:
                       FPU
                       DMA controller
                       PIC
                       Keyboard controller
                       PS/2 Controller
                       Intel Ice Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1
                       Intel Signal processing controller
                       Intel Ice Lake-LP Management Engine
                       Intel Ice Lake-LP SPI Controller
                       Intel Ice Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0
                       Intel Ice Lake-LP DRAM Controller
                       Intel Ice Lake-LP SMBus Controller
                       Intel Ice Lake Thunderbolt 3 NHI #0
                       Logitech Unifying Receiver
                       IMC Networks Integrated Camera

First thing that looks little odd:

cpu:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz, 1266 MHz
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz, 400 MHz
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz, 400 MHz
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz, 400 MHz

why are the other three cores only 400mhz, shouldn't they all be 1266Mhz ?

secondly, the intel stuff under 'unknown'. Should I be bothered about this? Do I need to go looking for drivers for these devices, and if so - how would I go about installing them?

I have Windows 10 and Debian on the same machine (dual boot), so I guess I should probably do some benchmark testing between the two... that would give me a real-world answer as to whether anything needs to be done.

Still thought I'd ask here for any opinions / advice / intel

Cheers

[sunrat]

The CPU governor clocks each core separately, that's normal.
The unknown devices look to be mainly hardware controllers on the motherboard. Except for the Logitech device which is listed already. Probably just a hwinfo quirk. Mainly normal too I guess.

[audiobabble]

yeah the logitec device is just a 2nd keyboard... it works, even though I get notifications to install something for it if I re-insert it... so I'm not bothered about that.

Hardware controllers... hmm well all hardware seems to be working OK, at least that which I actually need.

So far sounds like nothing to be concerned about.

I'm just looking into running geekbench test on both windows and linux for comparison... and maybe similarly a data-transfer speed test on my thunderbolt connection... then I'll know for sure!

[audiobabble]

interesting... I don't have exact figures, but geekbench 'scores' are:

geekbench on Linux: single-core = 630, multi-core = 1000

geekbench on Windows: single-core = 650, multicore = 2000

the single-core disparity doesn't seem all that significant, but mutli-core is double the 'score' on windows (which has all the manufacturer (RAZER)'s drivers installed... you know, the ones they don't bother providing for Linux!)

[sunrat]

interesting... I don't have exact figures, but geekbench 'scores' are:

I would take scores like that with a grain of salt. One could say it measures how well different versions of geekbench run on different platforms. The Linux version could have less optimisations or use some sort of virtualization.
"Cross-platform" applications are never the same on different platforms.

[audiobabble]

fair point... ho hum.

[stevepusser]

There's an update of hardinfo2 GUI in the bookworm-backports section...it can generate reports and run benchmarks: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm-ba ... /hardinfo2