Subject: Re: master registry of PNP ids?
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
From: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/25/2006 20:55:53
Jared D. McNeill wrote:
>
> On 25-Apr-06, at 8:08 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> As part of the work I'm doing to enhance EDID monitor configuration, I'd
>> like to provide a report on the monitor manufacturer.
>>
>> This is stored in the EDID as a "standard" 3 character (encoded down to
>> 2 bytes) "vendor id".   E.g. "CPQ" == "Compaq".
>>
>> This is the same scheme used for EISA and ISA-PNP, IIUC.  I even think
>> the vendor codes are basically the same for all three cases.
>>
>> Should we try to get a single master database of PNP vendor IDs, or is
>> it better to keep 3 (or more?) separate databases around?
>>
>> I'm not even sure where to find an "official" canonical list for these
>> vendor ids.
>
> Ask Microsoft, I'm afraid:
>
>   http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/pnp/pnpid.mspx
>
> Cheers,
> Jared

Yeah, I saw that form.  It looks like they don't publish (at least not
any where findable easily with google) the actual *list* of PNP IDs.  Arrgh.

    -- Garrett

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