Re: [Etherboot-developers] DHCP option 175

[Michael B. <mb...@fe...>]

On 22 May 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > > >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.
> > Is this information already available somewhere within Etherboot?
> No so that it is trivial to get at.  But basically to actually work
> on the driver that information is needed to look up the documentation.

So is it something that would need to be individually coded into each ISA
driver, or something that could be coded just once?  This is probably a
stupid question, but I just don't know if the vendor name and part number
are well-defined fields in the same way as the PCI vendor and device ID
fields - I never really got into ISA hardware.

Michael Brown
http://www.fensystems.co.uk