[HEADS UP] drm merged to -STABLE

[Robert Noland]

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 10:02 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:04:14AM -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 07:14 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:22:37PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 18:18 -0500, Greg Rivers wrote:
> > > 
> > > [snip]
> > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm curious about why the drm driver calls this card a RV370, while pciconf
> > > > > and the X server call it a RV380:
> > > > >  	pciconf: "RV380 RADEON X600 Series 265MB"
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not sure where pciconf gets it's data.  I would actaully like to
> > > > look at that.
> > > 
> > > According to the pciconf(8) manpage:
> > > 
> > >      The PCI vendor/device information database is normally read from
> > >      /usr/share/misc/pci_vendors.  This path can be overridden by setting
> > >      the environment variable PCICONF_VENDOR_DATABASE.
> > 
> > Right, that is just the vendor id though, not the device name string.
> 
> Have you actually looked at the contents of that file?
> All the strings describing vendor and device name that pciconf prints can
> be found in that file.

Hrm, Ok... I only glanced at it, it lists only the vendors first.

robert.

> 
> > The reason that I'm curious is that I was trying to extract device name
> > info from Nvidia cards the other day, without using a static data
> > source.
> > 
> > robert.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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