On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 12:07:39 +0200 
 Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:

 > Would be nice if this can avoid this kind of problem. But this may introduce
 > new problems due to broken PCI biosses ...

I suspect that using the PCI BIOS will actually be more reliable.  I.e.
I'm fairly certain that M$ operating systems use this method, and I must
say that I've never seen NT get the PCI configuration mode wrong.

I'm fairly certain Linux uses the PCI BIOS to determine the configuration
mode, as well.

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