Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:13:51 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <gcooper@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Jakub Lach <jakub_lach@mailplus.pl>, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>, Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org>, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Regarding pciids Message-ID: <AANLkTinW%2BB3T64yiH4ryRiBUmL2HW1mS5tKWFXS5TspU@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101018183645.GA33114@freebsd.org> References: <4C9389BC.7090300@FreeBSD.org> <20101018152338.GA6540@freebsd.org> <20101018152803.GA8679@freebsd.org> <AANLkTikFSdwnMDrdKVS7sQpOfT=HEyLwhYSD8UkRSK1g@mail.gmail.com> <20101018183645.GA33114@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrot= e: > On Mon Oct 18 10, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wr= ote: >> > On Mon Oct 18 10, Alexander Best wrote: >> >> On Fri Sep 17 10, Alex Dupre wrote: >> >> > I created hackish scripts to generate pci_vendors file from Boemler= and >> >> > Mares (pciids.sf.net) lists. I haven't found the Hart list. >> >> > >> >> > The results of the scripts are here: >> >> >> >> sorry it seems i missed your post back then. >> >> >> >> i found two more lists: >> >> >> >> http://rh-software.com/downloads/pcidevs.txt >> >> and >> >> http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-browse.php?dir=3D/pub/incoming (seems to be = based on the >> >> Hart list) >> >> >> >> the actual Hart list seems to have vanished and the web location is n= o longer >> >> accessible. >> >> >> >> personally i don't think it's necessary to combine the data of two fi= les. the >> >> mares database seems extremely elaborate. all my pci devices get desc= ribed >> >> properly. also making use of only one databse would make it more easy= to submit >> >> additional info back to the vendor. >> >> >> >> so any objections to switching to the mares list? >> >> >> >> cheers. >> >> alex >> >> >> >> > >> >> > http://www.alexdupre.com/pci_vendors/mares.txt >> >> > http://www.alexdupre.com/pci_vendors/boemler.txt >> >> > http://www.alexdupre.com/pci_vendors/mares-boemler.txt >> >> > http://www.alexdupre.com/pci_vendors/boemler-mares.txt >> >> > >> >> > The first two are generated from single lists, the last two are >> >> > combined, with different preference order. >> > >> > oh...and i think it would be a good idea to move from ";" as comment c= haracter >> > to "#". that way we wouldn't need to run a script, but could include t= he vendor >> > file directly into the src tree. >> >> =A0 =A0 I noted this a while back to Warner and Brooke as I came up with= a >> short script to do this, and they suggested that it be supplemented to >> the existing list, not replace it. > > why? the mares list is obviosly superior, because linux contributes to it= and > thus has far more people submitting changes than any other list. > > is there a case where the old list has an entry the mares list is missing= ? Most of the values (above 99%) were the same actually between the 2 lists. I think the point was to avoid churn in the description fields because a lot of the description fields were different, the Linux list was produced by questionable sources (IIRC the other list was produced by vendors, but I could be wrong). Rather than guessing I would just ask Brookes and Warner directly though, offlist... Cheers, -Garrett
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