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From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To: dg@root.com
Subject: Re: special memory device
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>    In order to do this you'd have to go poking around in the PCI registers of
> all of the devices that were found and create the map. This doesn't sound
> like much fun.

Why can't it be done at device probe time?  I think the existing PCI
code can tell what addresses are being (or can be) used by checking
the appropriate register in the PCI config address space.  It already
does this if you boot verbose, doesn't it?

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org