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SubjectRe: 2.3.20 will not boot (PCI problem)
Hi Alan,

> We can also use the $PIR rom table. This gives you a table of the PCI irq
> routing, at least for the primary bus.
> (http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/busbios/pciirq.htm)

We're already using it :-)) We call the BIOS Get Interrupt Routing Table
service only if $PIR table is not found.

> With ACPI the ACPI database gives a semi-parseable data table (actually its
> a complete horror). [ACPI has turned into such a catastrophe MS Win 98 OSR2
> basically doesnt use it]

I was playing with the idea of using ACPI databases, but after I've looked
at some of them, I returned back to the reality :)

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"DOS never says "EXCELLENT command or filename"..."

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