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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

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

gzaloprgm wrote: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.

shiner wrote:

gzaloprgm wrote: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

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

gzaloprgm wrote: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.

Hi,

samueldotj wrote: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

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


JAL

Mine is just a simple txt file.