regarding pciids

Jack Vogel jfvogel at gmail.com
Tue Sep 14 17:42:34 UTC 2010


On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Jakub Lach <jakub_lach at mailplus.pl> wrote:

>
>
> Alexander Best-4 wrote:
> >
> > any thoughts on using http://pciids.sourceforge.net/ for pciids instead
> of
> > the
> > Hart and Boemler lists. the SF site seems to be updated more regularly
> and
> > would get rid of the need to decide for each entry, whether to take the
> > Hart or
> > Boemler one.
> >
> > right now tools/tools/pciid/mk_pci_vendors.pl favours long descriptions
> > over
> > short ones which means that something like:
> >
> > 'Intel(R) ICH9 Family SMBus Controller (8086)'
> >
> > will get discarded in favor of
> >
> > 'Intel(R) ICH9 Family SMBus Controller working fine with
> > http://download.cnet.com/Chipset-Driver-Inte (8086)'
> >
>
> +1, since I'm the one[1] with (well, not the only one, ICH9 should be quite
> popular)
> "http://download.cnet.com/Chipset-Driver-Inte" device.
>
> best regards,
> - Jakub Lach
>

JFYI, the sourceforge site is where Intel updates its data, and until this
post I was
already under the impression we pulled from there. I would say that it would
be
the better source.

Jack


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