Subject: Re: PCI device recognition
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Rui Paulo <phlox-netbsd-kern@fnop.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/15/2004 13:51:12
On 2004.11.15 17:24:30 +0000, Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> How hard would it be to make it possible to add PCI vendor/device
> IDs to the list a device recognises, at run time ?

From my experience with unrecognized hardware in NetBSD, I never found
a *real* PCI card clone (i.e. a PCI device that behaves exactly as some other
PCI device already reconized by NetBSD, *without* quirks). 
Is that a common thing ?

Another problem is the added unstability of such tool. One could
define an invalid kernel driver for the chipset and, in the worst
case, it could render the card useless.

Regards.
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 Rui Paulo                                          rpaulo@netbsd-pt.org