Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Segher Boessenkool wrote: >>> In practice the subsystem vendor IDs are quite arbitrary and definitely not >>> the same for all PCI devices per mainboard >> >> They aren't even allowed to be the same for all devices on a mainboard: >> the subsystem IDs should uniquely identify the device, without having >> to look at the "regular" IDs as well. > Again, mind me asking. Where did you find this definition?
Section 6.2.4 of the PCI specification states: > These registers are used to uniquely identify the add-in card or subsystem > where the PCI device resides. The provide a mechanism for add-in card > vendors to > distinguish their add-in cards from one another even though the add-in cards > may > have the same PCI controller on them (and therefore the same Vendor ID and > Device ID). Or in paraphrase they identify the PCB the IC sits on. Eric -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
