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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 1997 13:25:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@LCS.MIT.EDU>
To:        Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@LCS.MIT.EDU>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel Xpress motherboards?
Message-ID:  <199703171825.NAA12224@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19970317192048.60297@x14.>
References:  <9703141918.AA01611@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <19970317192048.60297@x14.>

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<<On Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:20:48 +0100, Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> said:

>> Alternatively, when can we have proper PCI support that uses the PCI
>> BIOS (if present) to do its dirty work?

> Why should we want to rely on the PCI BIOS ???

1) Because it actually works.

2) Because it supports half-word and byte configuration accesses.

-GAWollman

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