Thread: Hardware compatibility list now online
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From: Dan D. <dde...@co...> - 2001-01-15 09:39:05
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I've added a hardware compatibility list/application to the linux1394.sourceforge.net website. This is a user-driven list, so you need to add your devices. A couple notes: - Only host/cardbus adapters should specify a chipset. - Please take the time to look up the CSR ROM GUIDs for your device using gscanbus. We can use this to make gscanbus' database of devices more complete, and I imagine other applications may make use of this to allow the user to select a device with which to work. I've also added recently a changelog to the home page, a FAQ section, and a notice about the broken drivers in the 2.4.0 kernel. +-DRD-+ |
From: Andreas M. <and...@iv...> - 2001-01-15 13:44:50
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Hiho, On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:47:43AM -0500, Dan Dennedy wrote: > I've added a hardware compatibility list/application to the Great! I will add my devices today. > - Please take the time to look up the CSR ROM GUIDs for your device > using gscanbus. We can use this to make gscanbus' database of devices > more complete, and I imagine other applications may make use of this to > allow the user to select a device with which to work. No, please do NOT do that. The GUID of a device is the GLOBAL unique ID. Even if you have the exact same model of a device like I do, they will have different GUIDs. The guid.conf from gscanbus is an ugly dirty cludge, just to make it display your particular devices correctly, and the IDs I put in are bogus. Finding a better way to identify devices is already on my agenda, but I it is currently very hard for me to get enough spare time to even fix the segfault. Anyway: If someone has a device identification library in the works, I will happily make use of it. The key fields for identifying a device should probably be Vendor ID and Model ID. Model ID seems to be 0 in many cases, so a combination of Vendor ID and some other values (like Unit Spec ID, Unit SW Version, etc.) might be appropriate. I am sure there is some document clarifying all this somewhere on the net. -- Andreas Micklei IVISTAR Kommunikationssysteme AG Ehrenbergstr. 19 / 10245 Berlin http://www.ivistar.de |
From: Dan D. <dde...@co...> - 2001-01-15 20:54:59
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Per Andreas Micklei's information about the CSR ROM GUID, the GUID field has been removed from the HCL. Also, Andreas discovered a bug with editing device entries that has been fixed now. +-DRD-+ |