Re: Is is possible to receive a cheep SubVendorID?

["F.Pitzl" <F.Pitzl@GMX.DE>]

Dave, Dimiter and all the others,

It seems that this is a point of great interest. Even the Chairman
of the PCISIG wrote a message to the membership thing. 
(Value Message from PCI-SIG Chairman - Roger Tipley)

There are some nice suggestions to get a ID, but on my point of view is
the Vendor ID a unique ID of the manufacturer of the interface IC,
and the SUBVendor ID a unique ID of the manufacturer of the board.
What some operating systems and other programs will do with this 
information is a other thing.

In the message of Roger Tipley he tells us the benefits of a membership,
but I (and some of you) do not want to (and could not) use it. We only 
want a 16 digits binary number to identify our products! We are willing 
to pay for it, but not $2500 - $3000.

If the PCISIG doesn't change their opinion I'm going to use the Vendor
ID 
of the interface IC for the whole board - this could not be in the
interest of the PCISIG, but there is on other way.

Regards,
Florian Pitzl


Dimiter Popoff wrote:
> 
> Dave,
> 
> >At that point, there will be three groups of victims.  All the folks
> >that used your 'home-grown' ID to spawn renegade boards; the company
> >that paid $2500 and released possibly several expensively-developed
> >boards that fail mysteriously in the field; and all the users whose
> >machines go belly-up because two other entities got in a peeing match
> >over vendor ID issues.
> 
> as you may remember this was one of the first issues I addressed
> when I offered the idea. I would like to see the company which will
> accept $FA3C as an ID and pay $2500 for it, once it is known
> to be even considered for public use. The only counteraction
> can come from the SIG - but it is a hard choice for them, wether
> to ignore the issue or to openly declare a war against the small guys
> by 'officially' assigning this ID to someone/something else.
> 
> >> Does the CPLD have to clock the bus?
> >
> >No, but to be PCI 2.1 clock-compliant means following....
> >....
> 
> Sorry, but I still do not get it what CPLD specific clock problems
> arise out of this?
> 
> >I'm sure that other embedded designers will be interested in
> >what you are doing.  I'm looking forward to seeing what you've
> >done (personally, of course 8-).
> 
> I have my first demos scheduled already (in Europe). I am planning
> a US demo trip as well for next year, I'll let you know when
> I know more.
> 
> Dimiter
> 
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