From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Subject: Re: [9fans] Virtual PC 6 PCI device probe failure
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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:55:35 -0600
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> This matters on Plan9
> because it does raw accesses to probe the PCI space whereas other
> operating systems
> do BIOS calls to obtain that information.

And FreeBSD finds the hardware just fine, using the BIOS interface.

I now vaguely remember a discussion here a long while back about why
the BIOS wasn't used for this. Was it to do with broken BIOS code?

--lyndon