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Re: Subject: IOPCIDevice - Custom name?

Hi Greg,

I've just built a simple .kext driver for a PCI card.
It uses DeviceID/VendorID matching, no Name matching.

I can load it with kextload, but when I look into the
System Profiler,
my PCI device appears as pci1000,10.
I'd like to give it a custom firendly name from the
driver's code.
(maybe on ::start, before actually starting the
service)

How can I do this?

Thanx,
Greg


The name you have "pci1000,10" is a generic name. In general to give an add-in PCI device a friendly name you need to supply an FCode driver in the expansion ROM on your device. The FCode driver then sets the friendly name at boot time.

I'm guessing you don't want to do all that work :)

Your question is interesting. Note that since IOPCIDevice is a subclass of IORegistryEntry you should be able to use the setName method of IORegistryEntry to change the name.

Cheers,
--
J-Sun Seng
Networking & Communications / Hardware
Developer Technical Support
Apple Computer, Inc.
#1 Infinite Loop
M/S: 303-2T
Cupertino, CA 95014
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