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Date:      Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:39:22 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Updating PCI vendors database
Message-ID:  <4D99D81A.7000903@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110404141016.GL71940@rincewind.paeps.cx>
References:  <20110404141016.GL71940@rincewind.paeps.cx>

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on 04/04/2011 17:10 Philip Paeps said the following:
> It looks like our /usr/share/misc/pci_vendors list (used only by pciconf as
> far as I can tell) has become rather stale.  We also appear to be tracking
> sources which no longer exist.
> 
> Would anyone object if I updated this list to source the same database used by
> Linux distributions at http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids?
> 
> It helps that our pciconf looks to be compatible with that format.  We just
> ignore subvendor and subdevice, but it doesn't appear to matter that the file
> contains this information.
> 
> I could cull the subvendor/subdevice from the list though.
> 
> Any views?
> 
> Reason I'm looking into this is because one of my customers would like their
> name to be correct when I import the driver I've been working on for them. :)


This is just for your information:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.current/127979/focus=128577
Maybe you'll find something useful there.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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