Re: [PCI] building PCI IDs/drivers DB from Linux kernel sources
Hello Glenn,
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 05:30:15AM +1000, Glenn wrote:
> >
> > In order to allow a kind of light detection of hardware to be use during
> > installation, I wanted to build a database (for PCI: I start with the
> > easiest...) with the following format:
> >
> > CLASS_ID VENDOR_ID DEVICE_ID driver_name
> >
> > I have decided to write a script (you will find all the stuff attached)
> > parsing the Linux kernel sources in order to do that.
> >
> >
> > Note: The DB constructed is _not_ garanty to be bullet proof. For example,
> > since this is only alpha tests, the class id are probably wrong for some
> > devices. Comments absolutely welcomed.
>
> I imported your db into gnumeric, sorted it to put the driver first,
> converted it to html (and .csv).
>
> http://people.debian.org/~bug1/dmod/linux-2.4.6-i386-pci.html
>
> A couple of possible problem entries
>
> The comma in the following
> 53c7,8xx 256 4096 1
> 53c7,8xx 256 4096 2
> 53c7,8xx 256 4096 3
> 53c7,8xx 256 4096 4
>
> and no number for device_id
> saa9730 512 4401 PCI_DEVICE_ID_PHILIPS_SAA9730
> pmc551 512 4528 PCI_DEVICE_ID_V3_SEMI_V370PDC
Yes, these ones are not defined (and I haven't found the correct numbers in
http://www.yourvote.com/pci/).
And indeed, specifically for debian-installer, we must have a look to
http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/
Cheers,
--
Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France
http://www.cri74.org/
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