Vendors
The top level of the hierarchy is the list of vendors. Each vendor has a 2-byte ID, stored in the database as 4 hexadecimal digits (with lowercase letters). They can be browsed here.

Devices
Each vendor keeps a list of his devices and assigns ID's to them. Each device in the list has a 2-byte long ID, stored the same way as the vendor ID (4 hexadecimal digits).

Subsystems
Sometimes, a device ID is not sufficient to select the right driver. For example, the same chip can be wired in different ways on different boards. In such cases, the manufacturer of the board defines a subsystem ID for the board, which serves as an additional identification.

The subsystem ID's are 4 bytes long, stored as 8 hexadecimal letters with a space in the middle (e.g., 1234 abcd could be a subsystem ID). The first quad of digits is the vendor ID (from the same list of vendors as the devices; possibly different from the vendor of the device itself), the rest is assigned by the vendor.

 

 

 

# Syntax:
# vendor  vendor_name
#    device  device_name                <-- single tab
#        subvendor subdevice  subsystem_name    <-- two tabs

1000  Broadcom / LSI
    0001  53c810
        1000 1000  LSI53C810AE PCI to SCSI I/O Processor
    0002  53c820
    0014  MegaRAID Tri-Mode SAS3516
        1000 9460  MegaRAID 9460-16i
        1000 9480  MegaRAID 9480-8i8e
        1000 9481  MegaRAID 9480-8e
        1028 1f3a  PERC H745 Adapter
        1028 1f3b  PERC H745 Front
        1028 1fd4  PERC H745P MX
        1137 020e  UCSC-RAID-M5 12G Modular RAID Controller
        1d49 0602  ThinkSystem RAID 930-16i 4GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Adapter
        1d49 0604  ThinkSystem RAID 930-8e 4GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Adapter
        1d49 0607  ThinkSystem RAID 930-16i 8GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Adapter
        8086 352d  Integrated RAID Module RMSP3AD160F
        8086 9460  RAID Controller RSP3TD160F
        8086 9480  RAID Controller RSP3MD088F

1d49  Lenovo
1d4c  Diamanti, Inc.

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