Re: Openchrome Package Audit
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:29:19AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Raphael Geissert wrote:
> >> Oh, and one thing I forgot: you may want to provide a file in
> >> /usr/share/xserver-xorg/pci/ to get the driver automatically loaded when
> >> the server sees a supported chip.
> >>
> >
> > How are those files generated? I'd like to know so I can request upstream to
> > generate those files too. I can see src/via_id.c has some cards
> > information, but nothing else.
> >
>
> When possible, we patch Makefile.am to sed the source and generate
> pci.ids at build time.
> See
> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-video-ati.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/01_gen_pci_ids.diff
>
> When it is not possible to do that, for instance for the vmware driver,
> we hardwire the list of pci.ids
> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-video-vmware.git;a=blob;f=debian/vmware.ids
>
> Brice
via_id.c contains a table to match up subsystem ids. In reality there
are only 10 unique unichrome device ids.
Luc Verhaegen.
http://unichrome.sf.net/
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