Re: pcidevs added, but support not added (Broadcom BCM4318 AirForce One 54g revision 0x02)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> See PR 34289:
> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=34289
>
> I have on NetBSD/amd64 4.99.67 the following:
>
> vendor 0x14e4 product 0x4318 (miscellaneous network, revision 0x02) at
> pci2 dev 2 function 0 not configured
>
> It looks like dmesg output has changed a lot as now it shows vendor and
> product number instead of name again.

Maybe we just removed PCIVERBOSE?   :)

> But what I am curious about: why are entries added to pcidevs if the
> support is not added?

To help identify those devices that need drivers?


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