On Oct 16, Jason Thorpe wrote
> 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.

Did you try it on 486 or old pentium hardware ?

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

It does, and I recall having seen that it need a hack for compaq machines,
because these map the PCI bios at an unusal memory address (I think it's a
program running under MS-DOS wich will remap the bios before booting linux).

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