On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 08:24 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Anil Gulecha wrote:
> > I'm looking for a very simple way to generate PCID in an x86
> > machinevery early in the bootup (when root file system is mounted).
> > the varience should be enough to distinguish between various desktps,
> > laptops and motherboards. I'm not looking for absolute unique IDs
> > (around 8 characters).
> >
> > Currently I came up :
> > /usr/X11/bin/scanpci | /usr/bin/digest -a md5 | /usr/bin/cut -c 1-8
>
> I'm not sure what PCID is, so don't know if it matters, but if you're
> expecting scanpci to always give identical output for the same machine,
> be very careful - the output may change without warning, either in
> format (less likely) or in the name assigned to a specific device (more
> common - happens to some devices every time we pull in a new dump of the
> PCI ids database from pciids.sf.net).
>
I'm curious as well, what is the purpose of this?
-- Garrett
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