On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 02:06:48AM +0200, Stefan Tauner wrote:
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:42:37 +0200 Luc Verhaegen libv@skynet.be wrote:
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 01:30:53AM +0200, Stefan Tauner wrote:
The PCI IDs are generic VIA IDs. Only Biostar IDs are those of the LOM, but that would not be a good choice for ID. Accept the generic IDs (+ DMI string) for now because this will be generic soonish(tm) anyway.
- {0x1106, 0x3177, 0x1106, 0x3177, 0x1106, 0x3116, 0x1106, 0x3116, "^KM266-8235$", NULL, NULL, P3, "Biostar", "M7VIQ", 0, OK, w83697xx_memw_enable_2e},
"KM266-8235" is "VIA Northbridge marketing name"-"VIA Southbridge marketing name with VT removed".
This DMI string is not unique at all.
true, yet there is no real alternative and a rationale was given to why it does not really matter much anyway. just ranting does not really help in this case :)
Surely a specific board name can still be provided on the command line for horribly broken bioses like this?
Luc Verhaegen.