Re: [Etherboot-developers] PCI IDs in 5.1 drivers

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>So the proposal goes:
>- Don't use pci_ids.h use hex numbers.  pci_ids.h doesn't seem to add any rea
>l value.
>- Use macros (PCI_ROM, ISA_ROM) because they are easy to find.
>- Do the work in genrules.pl when we build the Rom file.

Agree fully.

>- For the weird cases, and for identifying the drivers keep the NIC file.

I think you could even dispense with a proto NIC file and have the NIC
template inside genrules.pl itself. Reasoning: there aren't likely to be
any new ISA drivers and new PCI families don't happen often either. When
that happens a new genrules.pl can be released.