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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.

t