PCI Device Vendor list

[samueldotj]

Hi,

How are you embedding PCI vendor/device list/database in your kernel?

I am planning to create static sorted array from http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids, and use kind of binary search algorithm to search it.
Kindly post if there is some other better way.

Sam

[gzaloprgm]

If you want to avoid using that BSD or GPL Licensed file you can use http://www.pcidatabase.com/pci_c_header.php which AFAIK is in public domain.

Be aware that in that file there are LOTS of errors caused due incorrectly submition of data into the website.

I think doing a binary search is the faster (if not the fastest) option.

Cheers,
Gonzalo

[eddyb]

If you want to avoid using that BSD or GPL Licensed file you can use http://www.pcidatabase.com/pci_c_header.php which AFAIK is in public domain.

Be aware that in that file there are LOTS of errors caused due incorrectly submition of data into the website.

I think doing a binary search is the faster (if not the fastest) option.

Cheers,
Gonzalo

Thousands of errors and I'm not joking. i tried to use that, but had it to work after corrected many errors. badly, i don't have the corrected version . And even it didn't work on all devices.

[samueldotj]

If you want to avoid using that BSD or GPL Licensed file you can use http://www.pcidatabase.com/pci_c_header.php which AFAIK is in public domain.

Be aware that in that file there are LOTS of errors caused due incorrectly submition of data into the website.

I think doing a binary search is the faster (if not the fastest) option.

Cheers,
Gonzalo

Thousands of errors and I'm not joking. i tried to use that, but had it to work after corrected many errors. badly, i don't have the corrected version . And even it didn't work on all devices.

I also tried using pcidatabase, but couldnt make it work, so I gave up. Now trying http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids...

Sam

[gzaloprgm]

I gathered my old kernel backup and found this.

Hope it's 100% error corrected.

http://rapidshare.com/files/186966397/pcidev.h.html

Hope it helps!

Cheers,
Gonzalo

[samueldotj]

I gathered my old kernel backup and found this.

Hope it's 100% error corrected.

http://rapidshare.com/files/186966397/pcidev.h.html

Hope it helps!

Cheers,
Gonzalo

Thanks I will download it.

[Brendan]

Hi,

How are you embedding PCI vendor/device list/database in your kernel?

I'm not, and never will.

IMHO, even for monolithic kernels, it shouldn't be in the kernel. For example, it could be implemented as a file that all user-space utilities, etc can use to lookup the name and/or manufacturer from any vendorID and/or deviceID); so that it can be updated without replacing the kernel.


Cheers,

Brendan

[jal]

I'd also advise having it in a separate file, which will allow you to compress it, saving quite some memory.


JAL

[Dex]

Mine is just a simple txt file.