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RE: Subsystem Vendor and Device IDs
> From pierce@scruznet.com Tue Jul 23 21:11:24 1996
>
> Um, re: your suggestion (2). No, I don't think so. I know of numerous
cases
> where OS's and/or drivers bypass the PCI bios and read the configuration
> space directly, trying both method 1 and method 2... This is done
> for various reasons, most notably, numerous early PCI system bios's had
> broken 32bit PCI entry points, indeed, some very early PCI systems didn't
> even handle the real mode software int interface correctly.
>
> -jrp
Thanks for the feedback.
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