On Wed, 29 Jul 98 13:59:47 PDT 
 David Seifert <seifert@sequent.com> wrote:

 > But why is the PCI spec the place for this decision?
 > 
 > The only vendor support needed should be proper documentation.
 > (Yes, I know, many vendor don't want to provide docs.)

Erg.  So, that means that the 100s of different PC motherboards out there
would require SPECIAL support in the NetBSD kernel.  "Um, I think I'd prefer
it if the firmware did the PCI configuration."

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