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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Getting PCI information
To: hal@snitt.com (Hal Snyder)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:37:41 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <31cf0674.1033247181@vogon.trans.sni-usa.com> from "Hal Snyder" at Jun 24, 96 09:22:49 pm
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> > 3) Have the PCI probe code keep all information
> >    from the boot phase in a kernel table
>  
> Agreed.  Do we need a /dev/pci with a user mode utility to translate
> the contents into human readable form?

Please consider a generic data relocation interface if you do this
so that ISA PnP, PCMCIA, and other hardware relocation interfaces
don't each need their own utility.

I would think this would be a generic attrivute of the top level
devfs directory, and ioctl()'s/fcntl()'s against an FD open on the
dir itself...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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