Re: [Pkg-pciutils-discuss] Re: Updating of pci.ids in Etch

2006-06-19 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Taggart wrote: > Given that with the new compression willy added that 230k is down to 75k, how > about keeping the non-NIC stuff too? Fair enough.. > installations. What I usually do is drop to a shell and run `lspci -v > > /var/log/` and then fire up the d-i webserver to grab the output. T

Re: [Pkg-pciutils-discuss] Re: Updating of pci.ids in Etch

2006-06-19 Thread Matt Taggart
Joey Hess writes... > I also wonder if stripping down the pci.ids file in pciutils-udeb > further so it only covers NICs might be worthwhile to save space in d-i. > 230k is still a lot of space for the above functionality. Given that with the new compression willy added that 230k is down to 75k,

Re: [Pkg-pciutils-discuss] Re: Updating of pci.ids in Etch

2006-06-18 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 09:37:53AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 18 June 2006 00:27, Matthew Wilcox wrote: Indeed. How about compressing it? [...] It shouldn't be hard to bolt a gunzip decompressor into libpci. That looks excellent. And the (slight) performance redu

Re: [Pkg-pciutils-discuss] Re: Updating of pci.ids in Etch

2006-06-18 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 09:37:53AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 18 June 2006 00:27, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > Indeed. How about compressing it? > [...] > > It shouldn't be hard to bolt a gunzip decompressor into libpci. > > That looks excellent. And the (slight) performance reduction shoul

Re: [Pkg-pciutils-discuss] Re: Updating of pci.ids in Etch

2006-06-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 June 2006 00:27, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Indeed. How about compressing it? [...] > It shouldn't be hard to bolt a gunzip decompressor into libpci. That looks excellent. And the (slight) performance reduction should not really be an issue for lspci. Optionally, you could do that only

Re: [Pkg-pciutils-discuss] Re: Updating of pci.ids in Etch

2006-06-17 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:26:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Sarge does not have a pciutils-udeb at all. > > Etch d-i uses lspci in only two places: > > 1. To determine the device name of a network interface. > 2. To include lspci output in installation reports. > > Neither of these seem like a

Re: [Pkg-pciutils-discuss] Re: Updating of pci.ids in Etch

2006-06-16 Thread Martin Mares
Hello! > I also wonder if stripping down the pci.ids file in pciutils-udeb > further so it only covers NICs might be worthwhile to save space in d-i. > 230k is still a lot of space for the above functionality. Maybe we could reduce pci.ids in d-i only to devices recognized by the kernel?