On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Alexander Best <arun...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon Oct 18 10, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Alexander Best <arun...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > 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=/pub/incoming (seems to be based
>> >> on the
>> >> Hart list)
>> >>
>> >> the actual Hart list seems to have vanished and the web location is no
>> >> longer
>> >> accessible.
>> >>
>> >> personally i don't think it's necessary to combine the data of two files.
>> >> the
>> >> mares database seems extremely elaborate. all my pci devices get described
>> >> 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
>> > character
>> > to "#". that way we wouldn't need to run a script, but could include the
>> > vendor
>> > file directly into the src tree.
>>
>> 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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