On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Tim Roberts wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:12:21 -0800 (PST), Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Tim Roberts wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> As I recall, there is work going on to eliminate this problem by allowing
> >> our drivers to claim a whole range of PCI IDs, eliminating the need for
> >> xf86PciInfo.h. Is that work present in 4.3.0?
> >
> > xf86PciInfo.h isn't needed. I stopped adding NVIDIA cards to it
> >a while ago. I'm not really sure why we even have an xf86PciInfo.h.
> >The burden supporting a particular device ID is, and I believe always
> >has been, in the driver. Merely adding a PCI ID to xf86PciInfo.h
> >doesn't add support for that PCI ID.
>
> What you say is true, EXCEPT for "XFree86 -configure". At least as late as
> 4.2.1, the automatic configuration stuff will refuse to run if the PCI id is
> not in xf86PciIfno.h.
>
> Does your nv hack solve that?
>
I don't know anything about "-configure". And I can't put PCI IDs
in xf86PciInfo.h if I don't know what they are. The point of my nv
hack was to support cards that haven't come out yet.
MArk.
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