[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>On ieee1275 / OBP (i.e. on sparc) you can fake those id's and therefore >>avoid a kernel-recompile. >>(using nvedit and a script etc.) >> >> > >On x86 systems, you can probably reprogram the vendor/device ids >(they are programmable in the chips) > >But you would only need to do so if the device driver in question >is broken and has hard coded device ids it can use >(often assuming that unknown devices are not supported; sometimes >a "latest model" assumption or even 'most popular model' makes most >sense) >
Well, I would rather try to hexedit the drv file first, as long as the pci id's are stored as plain ascii text in it. Flashing is always dangerous. Bad experience with buggy eproms. Dead device afterwards, because flash chip not available two years past EOL. It is ways more convenient on OBP based platforms. FYI: "OpenBIOS" tries to provide a multiboot-bootable ieee1274-1994 emulation for x64/x86. (Can be booted i.e. from Grub, boots to an "ok" promt then.) Looks promising, but doesn't yet boot Solaris. -- MB _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
