Alan Cox wrote:
One of the reasons why hardware vendors want to move away from
traditional accesses is to be able to use the larger config space in
PCI-Express, rather than being locked into the 256-byte legacy PCI
config space.
Mostly for treacherous computing extensions where subsets of the config
space can only be accessed by signed machines blessed by your favourite
movie company and video card vendor...
Um, no, Mr. Paranoia, it's a standard part of the spec.
Jeff
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