On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 08:42:48PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

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> Wanne bet there'll be devices that screw this up? THere's devices that even screwed

> up the 64-256 region after all.

I don't know if they 'screwed it up'.  There are devices that misbehave

when registers are read from pci config space.  But this was never

guaranteed to be a safe thing to do; it gradualy became clear that

people expected to be able to read random registers and manufacturers

responded accordingly, but I don't think you were ever guaranteed to be

able to peek at bits of config space arbitrarily.
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operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such

a retrograde step."

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