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+# Copyright 2013-2019 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class Lshw(MakefilePackage):
+    """
+    lshw is a small tool to provide detailed information on the
+    hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory
+    configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version
+    and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 or
+    EFI (IA-64) systems and on some ARM and PowerPC machines.
+    """
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/lyonel/lshw"
+    url      = "https://github.com/lyonel/lshw/archive/B.02.18.tar.gz"
+
+    version('02.18', sha256='aa8cb2eebf36e9e46dfc227f24784aa8c87181ec96e57ee6c455da8a0ce4fa77')
+    version('02.17', sha256='0bb76c7df7733dc9b80d5d35f9d9752409ddb506e190453a2cc960461de5ddeb')
+    version('02.16', sha256='58a7731d204791dd33db5eb3fde9808d1235283e069e6c33a193637ccec27b3e')
+    version('02.15', sha256='33c51ba0554d4bcd8ff9a67e5971a63b9ddd58213e2901a09000815376bc61b9')
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        make('install')
+        install_tree('.', prefix)