On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Garrett D'Amore <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:
> Cyril Plisko wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Jerry Gilliam
>> <jg at jurassic.sfbay.sun.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> - Output of 'prtconf -d'
>>> * Actual PCI vendor ID and device ID on X86:
>>> pci1028,214 (pciex8086,105e), instance #0
>>> * and on SPARC:
>>> network (pciex8086,105e), instance #0
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I think that in many cases the next step would be to manually search
>> in various tables what the actual device is. So why not do one more
>> step and lookup these numbers in /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids ? Perhaps,
>> while combined with -v?
>>
>> I.e.
>>
>> - Output of 'prtconf -vd'
>>
>> * Actual PCI vendor ID and device ID on X86:
>> pci1028,214 (pciex8086,105e [Intel 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet
>> Controller]), instance #0
>> * and on SPARC:
>> network (pciex8086,105e [Intel 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet
>> Controller]), instance #0
>>
>
> Seems like that overlaps with scanpci. If we could share the PCI id table
> between these projects, then I'd be happy. But I'm loathe to create yet
> another copy of the PCI ID mapping table that has to be maintained
> separately (and can get out of sync with the others.)
>
That's why I specifically mentioned /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids. It is
in this file where scanpci (libpciaccess to be more precise) gets all
the info from.
--
Regards,
Cyril
