Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/pci
To: None <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
From: ITOH Yasufumi <itohy@netbsd.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 08/02/2006 22:58:55
In article <44CB6B2D.5000608@tadpole.com>
garrett_damore@tadpole.com writes:

> I've never seen actual parts.  Does this mean that these parts use the
> AN983 device id in the device id or subsystem id register?  My read of
> the doco suggested this was not the case, and someone else had
> definitely added the ADM9511 (or was it the 9513?) so I assumed that
> there was at least one device out there where it was required.

I'm not sure (I didn't write the code).

The vendor/device IDs and the subsystem ID are loaded from PROM,
and using same IDs for different devices is theoretically possible.
I don't know such products, though.

-- 
ITOH Yasufumi