From ba9898b9718e491331727b39a8ab609cb88e2d33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anssi Hannula Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:16:33 +0200 Subject: Document NVIDIA_CARD forcin in README.pcitable --- convert/README.pcitable | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'convert') diff --git a/convert/README.pcitable b/convert/README.pcitable index 5f68e5fb..de2c8bd5 100644 --- a/convert/README.pcitable +++ b/convert/README.pcitable @@ -38,7 +38,14 @@ NVIDIA_CARD="NVIDIA GeForce 400 series and later" convert/merge2pcitable.pl nvid # nouveau driver doesn't have ID lists, instead it uses a NVIDIA-specific # PMC.ID for detecting if a card is supported or not. Currently we use the # IDs from the proprietary driver for it as well. - +# +# You can use option "-f=" (sic) to force all already-existing entries +# (only those supported by the imported driver, of course) to be set to +# $NVIDIA_CARD instead of just unexisting entries (the default). +# This is useful when e.g. branching a legacy driver (first use sed etc. +# to have everything assigned to the legacy driver, then use -f= to +# force-assign everything still supported by the current driver to it. +# # Intel graphics card IDs # -- cgit v1.2.1