Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> demetrioussha...@netscape.net kirjoitti:
>   
>> In the devlist files, what's the significance of some of the vendor's 
>> being prefixed with 'pci' while others are prefixed with 'pcs'?
>>     
> The pci ones are used for PCI primary vendor/device ID. The pcs entries 
> are for the subsystem vendor/device ID.
>
> The idea is that pcs entries are used when it's possible to give better 
> identification for the sound card instead of just some generic chipset 
> name. If there is no matching pcs entry then the device will be 
> indentified as a generic one.
>   
One more thing. The ossdetect utility (that uses the .devices info) 
tries first match the sub device id. If that fails then the primary PCI 
device ID is used. The Solaris version of ossdetect does some additional 
processing because Solaris identifies all PCI devices by their subsystem ID.

Best regards,

Hannu
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