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

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ebi...@ln... (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:
> 
> > >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.
> 
And there is one extra requirement.  That Marty be able to get a list
of all of the valid targets for rom-o-matic.

Eric