Comment 42 for bug 30910

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote :

Hrmmm... So two things...

First, you should get up with balloons and charlie_tca and others in the Ubuntu QA team:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam

The first link I provided, while not in a necessarily perfect UI and not accessible via API can give you an idea of the most common items, if you do some digging... for example:
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/catalog/component/pci/10de:0a6c/

Shows the nVidia GT218M certified on several Lattitude and Thinkpad models.

For a more broad view, however, as the Certification list only provides data on systems requested for certification from the OEM, the Ubuntu Friendly stuff will probably give a much better view of what "the real world" has Ubuntu running on.

The QA team was recently talking about overhauling the Friendly site, and what you need would be best, IMO, as a discussion with them. I could see, for example, adding a view to the Friendly site that displays GPU by number of systems containing it, or perhaps a list of the 10 most commonly submitted GPUs.

or other components like CPU, sound card, etc.

I do NOT know about access to the Ubuntu Friendly database, that's something balloons and others on that team could speak about though.

So, while I don't know of any way to get that data right now, at least that's a way you could get improvements made to the site(s) to give you that data down the road.