Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

[Dag-ErlingSmørgrav]

Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au> writes:
> The (conceptually) simplest approach would be for all drivers to
> advertise the PCI IDs that they can support (together with a priority)
> in a manner that would allow such a list to be generated automatically.

yes, we need something like

struct pci_device_info {
        uint32_t        pciid;
        char            brand[64];
        char            model[64];
} my_supported_devices[] = {
        { 0x12345678, "Acme", "Nutcracker 2000" }
};

which is placed in a separate ELF section so we can extract it from
the module.

except it needs to be flexible enough to support other buses than PCI
(SBUS, USB...)

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