On 15/07/08 23:06 +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> The subsystem information is used by lspci to correctly identify some 
> devices. Plus, more importantly, we use it in flashrom to identify 
> mainboards. Using a unique device ID per board will require us to have 
> two sets of information, one for legacy bios and one for coreboot.

The kernel also uses it rarely to implement quirks for specific bugs
on individual PCBs. 

Jordan

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Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.


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