i386/57133: PCI device ID for Intel 82801DB/BAM/CAM and ATI
Radeon Mobility 9000
Tai-hwa Liang
avatar at mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw
Fri Jan 2 23:20:08 PST 2004
The following reply was made to PR i386/57133; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Tai-hwa Liang <avatar at mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw>
To: John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/57133: PCI device ID for Intel 82801DB/BAM/CAM and ATI
Radeon Mobility 9000
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 15:17:49 +0800 (CST)
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, John Baldwin wrote:
> On 01-Jan-2004 Tai-hwa Liang wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
> >> Current no longer displays strings like these for unprobed devices. Instead,
> >> a user can use 'pciconf -lv' to find out what all the unprobed devices on a
> >> system are on both 4.x and 5.x. Having the descriptive strings in the
> >> chip(4) driver is now obsolete. The pciconf method also has the advantage of
> >> not making the kernel larger with all the strings.
> > Does that mean this PR should be closed?
>
> Probably, but I was waiting to see what you thought first.
Well, sounds that these strings did nothing with functional effect but only
enlarge the kernel. I think this PR can be closed.
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