From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 24 19:25:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81EC537B401 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 19:25:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA54126; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 22:22:23 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010215154913.P97929@moose.bri.hp.com> References: <20010215154913.P97929@moose.bri.hp.com> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 22:22:22 -0500 To: Steve Roome , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: bin/22124, a patch to pciconf Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 3:49 PM +0000 2/15/01, Steve Roome wrote: >Is there any chance someone could take a look at the patch >I supplied for pciconf and perhaps let me have some feedback >on it? > >It's just to clean up the output a little and add the ability >to identify better any non supported chipsets. I thought that >this would be helpful when trying to install FreeBSD and not >knowing which devices were which. > >I'm sure someone will tell me they don't like the way it's >done and I could put the data in tables instead of switch >statements, but whatever, just wondered if there was a chance >of some feedback on it? Were there any replies to this? The PR looks plausibly helpful to me, but I don't do any work in the pciconf area to say if it should be done some other way. I do like the idea of having the option of printing out info as "real words" (when known), instead of just a bunch of numbers that the user is supposed to understand the significance of... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message