Cyril Plisko wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Jerry Gilliam
> <jg at jurassic.sfbay.sun.com> wrote:
>
>> - Output of 'prtconf -d'
>> * Actual PCI vendor ID and device ID on X86:
>> pci1028,214 (pciex8086,105e), instance #0
>> * and on SPARC:
>> network (pciex8086,105e), instance #0
>>
>>
>
> I think that in many cases the next step would be to manually search
> in various tables what the actual device is. So why not do one more
> step and lookup these numbers in /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids ? Perhaps,
> while combined with -v?
>
> I.e.
>
> - Output of 'prtconf -vd'
>
> * Actual PCI vendor ID and device ID on X86:
> pci1028,214 (pciex8086,105e [Intel 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller]), instance #0
> * and on SPARC:
> network (pciex8086,105e [Intel 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller]), instance #0
>
Seems like that overlaps with scanpci. If we could share the PCI id
table between these projects, then I'd be happy. But I'm loathe to
create yet another copy of the PCI ID mapping table that has to be
maintained separately (and can get out of sync with the others.)
-- Garrett
