Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2015-07-31

RE: [PATCH v4 40/50] IB/hfi1: add sysfs routines and documentation

From: Christoph Lameter <hidden>
Date: 2015-07-31 18:32:53

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Marciniszyn, Mike wrote:
quoted
And lspci as well as other tools will not be able to distinguish between
different versions of the hardware.
Sorry if I misled.

We do fully support the PCI revision number, and that will be set that diff=
erently for different hardware versions.
Ah great.
We have additional versioning information that we convey using chip registe=
rs (not PCI config registers), and the driver brings these values out for i=
nterpretation by our own tools. The hardware design does not support VPD.
Oww... Our IT folks will be really mad about this. Their inventory and
provisioning systems will not be able to work properly.


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