Re: [Etherboot-developers] DHCP option 175

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ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >BTW, where do I get the ID numbers from for ISA cards?  For PCI, I am just
> >using dev.vendor and dev.dev_id (in config.c), but I can't see an obvious
> >equivalent for ISA.
> 
> There isn't any that I'm aware of at least for the non-PnP variety. We
> may have to invent some. Possibly 4 distinct bytes from the common name,
> or 2 from the same vendor table, plus 2 made up, might serve.

The only kind of ID I can think of is the vendor name, and part number, of
the ethernet chip.

It might not be the smallest string but it would be something you
could look up.  And it is already distinct for manufacturing and
tracking reasons.

Eric