Wanjohi 730739a5c0 fix(nesdoctor): fall back to the SoC name on Apple Silicon, and print raw probes ...

The macOS arm added in the previous commit did not change anything -- the
runner still reported `gpu=unknown`. Checked rather than assumed, which is the
only reason it is known.

Two possible causes and no way to choose between them from here: either the
`system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType` parsing is wrong, or that machine is a
headless virtual Mac with no display adapter to enumerate at all, in which case
`unknown` was the correct answer and there is nothing to fix. The second is
likely and the first is not ruled out.

So, rather than guessing again: on an arm64 Mac the GPU *is* the SoC, so the
chip name is a true and useful answer even with no display attached.
`sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string` works headless and yields
"Apple M1 (integrated)". Intel Macs get no fallback, because there the GPU may
be integrated or discrete and a guess would be wrong rather than coarse.

And the CI step now dumps the **raw** output of each platform's probes --
`system_profiler`, `Get-CimInstance Win32_VideoController`, `Get-PSDrive`,
`df -Pk`, `/sys/class/drm` -- into its own log group. A field that comes back
empty can then be told apart from a parser that is wrong, which is exactly the
distinction that cost this round trip. All of it is `|| true`: the step exists
for looking, and a probe that misbehaves on a runner must never fail a release.

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ci.yml

feat(nesdoctor): a host readiness checker that measures instead of asking (#310)

2026-09-02 12:52:47 +03:00

release-nesdoctor.yml

fix(nesdoctor): fall back to the SoC name on Apple Silicon, and print raw probes

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