Freebios2 recovery progress...

YhLu YhLu at tyan.com
Thu Oct 21 13:19:48 CEST 2004


No., Onboard scsi subsystem id should be same to others.

-----Original Message-----
From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:ollie at lanl.gov] 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 11:21 AM
To: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: YhLu; LinuxBIOS
Subject: Re: Freebios2 recovery progress...

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 11:56, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> The .set_subsystem simply exists because there is not
> a standard way to set that value.  The almost generic
> version is in src/devices/pci_device.c but I can use
> it only occasionally.
>  
> > device pci 0.0 on
> > 	vendor 0x1234
> > 	device 0x5678
> > end
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > device pci 0.0 on
> > 	register "subsystem_vendor_id" = "0x1234"
> > 	register "subsystem_device_id" = "0x5678"
> > end
> 
> I don't see the benefit of those methods over having
> an Option if you have exactly 1 subsystem vendor_id+device_id that
> need to be set.
> 

YhLu's intention is to set subsystem ID differently for each devices
on the mainboard. It is totally the opposite to what you want and doing.

Ollie




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