> On Feb 22, 8:24am, "Ulrich Windl" wrote:
> > On 21 Feb 96 at 17:09, Stephen Lee wrote:
> > > On Feb 20, 12:11pm, "Ulrich Windl" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > If you have configured PCI support, but your computer has no PCI
> > > > BIOS, it looks as if there are no PCI DEVICES. The following patch
> > > > gives a better message in /proc/pci.
> > >
> > > XF86 can get at PCI configuration without calling PCI bios (using just
> > > I/O); is there a standard way to do that? I don't have the PCI
> > > standards...
> >
> > Basically the BIOS does just work on the hardware; every program can
> > do that, BUT if you don't have PCI support in your BIOS, then most
> > likely you don't have any PCI slot in your motherboard.
>
> So you're saying the patch is for people who don't have PCI but have PCI
> support compiled in I guess?
Yes, I'm thinking of precompiled boot kernels for the various
distributions.