On Tuesday, November 23, 2010 6:20:03 pm Alexander Best wrote:
> On Tue Nov 23 10, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > on 18/10/2010 18:28 Alexander Best said the following:
> > > On Mon Oct 18 10, Alexander Best wrote:
> > >> On Fri Sep 17 10, Alex Dupre wrote:
> > >>> I created hackish scripts to generate pci_vendors file from Boemler and
> > >>> Mares (pciids.sf.net) lists. I haven't found the Hart list.
> > >>>
> > >>> The results of the scripts are here:
> > >>
> > >> sorry it seems i missed your post back then.
> > >>
> > >> i found two more lists:
> > >>
> > >> http://rh-software.com/downloads/pcidevs.txt
> > >> and
> > >> http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-browse.php?dir=/pub/incoming (seems to be based 
> > >> on the
> > >> Hart list)
> > >>
> > >> the actual Hart list seems to have vanished and the web location is no 
> > >> longer
> > >> accessible.
> > >>
> > >> personally i don't think it's necessary to combine the data of two 
> > >> files. the
> > >> mares database seems extremely elaborate. all my pci devices get 
> > >> described
> > >> properly. also making use of only one databse would make it more easy to 
> > >> submit
> > >> additional info back to the vendor.
> > >>
> > >> so any objections to switching to the mares list?
> > >>>
> > >>> http://www.alexdupre.com/pci_vendors/mares.txt
> > >>> http://www.alexdupre.com/pci_vendors/boemler.txt
> > >>> http://www.alexdupre.com/pci_vendors/mares-boemler.txt
> > >>> http://www.alexdupre.com/pci_vendors/boemler-mares.txt
> > >>>
> > >>> The first two are generated from single lists, the last two are
> > >>> combined, with different preference order.
> > > 
> > > oh...and i think it would be a good idea to move from ";" as comment 
> > > character
> > > to "#". that way we wouldn't need to run a script, but could include the 
> > > vendor
> > > file directly into the src tree.
> > 
> > So, guys, perhaps I missed the patch(es) - I think that I am interested in
> > reviewing them and getting them committed.
> > 
> > Many thanks!
> 
> iirc the problem is that some entries in the current pciid list are not 
> present
> in the mares list. this leaves two options:
> 
> 1) take the mares list and add the missing entries from the current pciid
>    version or
> 2) try to get all entries from the current pciid committed upstream to the
>    mares list and once that's been done do a complete import of the mares 
> list,
>    replacing the current pciid file entirely.

I think go for 1) for now.  Has anyone asked the mares folks about 2)?

-- 
John Baldwin
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