We could always make using the BIOS an option....

Manuel BOUYER writes:
> 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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> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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