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Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:12:18 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Yan Li <elliot.li.tech@...il.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
joerg.roedel@....com, rjmaomao@...il.com,
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, nancydreaming@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] VMware detection support for x86 and x86-64
Yan Li wrote:
>>>
>> If we get false negatives that is quite frankly their problem, not ours.
>> If nothing else, we should be able to look for a host bridge with the
>> VMWare vendor ID -- that should arguably be safer than DMI.
>
> Yeah, VMware's PCI vendor Id: 0x15AD
>
> Why using PCI vendor ID is safer than DMI?
Mostly because DMI is human-readable and therefore more likely to change
for non-technical reasons.
-hpa
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