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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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