Anil Gulecha wrote:
> I'm looking for a very simple way to generate PCID in an x86
> machinevery early in the bootup (when root file system is mounted).
> the varience should be enough to distinguish between various desktps,
> laptops and motherboards. I'm not looking for absolute unique IDs
> (around 8 characters).
>
> Currently I came up :
> /usr/X11/bin/scanpci | /usr/bin/digest -a md5 | /usr/bin/cut -c 1-8
I'm not sure what PCID is, so don't know if it matters, but if you're
expecting scanpci to always give identical output for the same machine,
be very careful - the output may change without warning, either in
format (less likely) or in the name assigned to a specific device (more
common - happens to some devices every time we pull in a new dump of the
PCI ids database from pciids.sf.net).
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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