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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>A couple of quick questions:  Is there a unified structure where one can
>access the information from PCI/EISA/ISA probes?

No.  For ISA alone there are several tables with incomplete information.
This would be easy to fix except there are a lot of drivers.

>How well can the ISA
>code non-invasively probe devices (currently)? 

There was once a probe option in userconfig but it was turned off because
it didn't work in all cases.  I think most probes are very invasive but
this is only a problem at autoconfig time in a few cases.

Bruce