[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: pciparm init script for sys-apps/pciutils

[Steve Long]

federico wrote:

> Steve Long ha scritto:
>> What benefits does it show; why would I want it on my machine?
>>

> because it provides a place to store those settings;
>
latency timer settings? the coder in me can like that idea, the usr wants to
know "so what?"

> although I don't like wrapping each register into a variable... too much
> work on the script side. would be better to simplify it to:
>
> ALL="latency_timer=0b ..."
> <CARD_ID>="latency_timer=ff rom_address=48000001"
> <CARD_ID2>="poo=foo ..."
>
> with pci IDs being read from `lspci` directly
>
Don't get me wrong i find this interesting; just want an idea of
application. (Don't know what other registers there are which might be of
use..)

Would CARD_IDN thus be replaced directly by lspci id? And TBH I think a flat
file/ BASH snippet is fine. Config is separate to impl imo.


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