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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: SMBIOS/DMI etc
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
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In-Reply-To: <199707290211.LAA09448@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jul 29, 97 11:41:42 am
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> > I have considered adding calls to the PCI BIOS as an
> > alternate mechanism to directly reading configuration 
> > space registers. But I have no intention to make the
> > PCI code depend on PCI BIOS services.
> 
> This is because...?

If I had to guess, it's probably because BIOS calls are Intel-centric.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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