On Tuesday 25 July 2006 16:23, Timothy Miller wrote: > On 7/25/06, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't really understand the legal issues, though. What does a > > vendor ID legally mean? Is it a requirement of using the standard, > > or a matter of convention? If OHF paid for a vendor ID, would it > > be permissable to use it for any card that used the OGP > > design/chipset? Or does it really need to be applied to each > > separate manufacturer? What happens in the industry when a minor > > card manufacturer uses a major chipset? Does the ID follow the card > > manufacturer, or the chipset manufacturer? > > I don't really know the rules, but I do know this: It is common to > buy silicon from someone else, so the vendor ID is theirs, but the > reseller may replace the SUBvendorid with their own ID.
I took a look at pciids.sf.net, and found a bit of a mess. For example, ATI has major ID 1002 (my Radeon VE is indeed 1002:5159) and nVidia has 10de, but apparently there is some company called PNY technologies who have an nVidia-based board with 01df, and card maker Sapphire has a Radeon X700 with major id 0721. There are also lots of entries that document hardware with the wrong ID... I reckon the PCI spec is copyrighted; do you have to sign something to the effect of having to make any product you develop based on it compatible, and that you can't just use any PCI ID? Put differently, what kinds of bad things will happen to us if we simply use a hitherto unused ID? Lourens
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