[Bug 1963283] Re: pci.ids needs to be kept current in active releases

[Jeff Lane ]

** Also affects: pci.ids (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  pci.ids needs to be kept current in active releases

Status in pci.ids package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in pci.ids source package in Bionic:
  New
Status in pci.ids source package in Focal:
  New
Status in pci.ids source package in Impish:
  Won't Fix
Status in pci.ids source package in Jammy:
  New

Bug description:
  Currently, this is the state of the PCI ID database file in Ubuntu:

  $ rmadison pci.ids
   pci.ids | 0.0~2020.03.20-1 | focal  | source, all
   pci.ids | 0.0~2021.08.22-1 | impish | source, all
   pci.ids | 0.0~2022.01.22-1 | jammy  | source, all

  Because of this, focal installations cannot identify PCI devices that
  were added to the IDs file after March 20, 2020.

  As this is just a text file, pci.ids should always be updated with the
  latest info regardless of release.

  This has an effect on MAAS in which any hardware commissioned in MAAS
  uses a 2 year old version of hte PCIID database and thus cannot
  identify newer hardware such as the nVidia A100 GPU.

  The 2020 version of the file does not contain id's for this while the
  2022 version in Jammy does:

  12393     20f1  GA100 [A100 PCIe 40GB]

  
  Comparing the current source to the version in focal, there are over 3500 additional or modified IDs in the id file:

  $ diff /usr/share/misc/pci.ids pci.ids |wc -l
  3529

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