Paul Durrant writes:
 > Xiu-Yan Wang wrote:
 > > 
 > > Still internal and cannot be given to customers at this time. There is a
 > > push to open source it. The only issue is it gives customers powers to
 > > completely break their systems and is completely unservercible.
 > > 
 > 
 > There are many ways for a root user to completely break their system. 
 > Denying access to PCI config. space does not make a system any less 
 > liable to being trashed; OTOH it does annoy a lot of developers (who are 
 > used to lspci on Linux).

At least some hardware vendors have tools which depend on PCI config
space access which simply cannot work on Solaris/sparc without this.

Drew
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