+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+BIG FAT WARNING: This is an ALPHA version. The documentation is out of date
+ and the same holds for spec files and even for this README.
+ And, of course, you should expect this release to contain BUGS.
+
+WHY ALPHA? I've split the real PCI access primitives from the rest
+ of the code and created libpci, which supports not only
+ /proc/bus/pci, but also direct hardware access and reading
+ of configuration space dumps and it's intended to work
+ on all Linux versions and even on non-Linux systems, making
+ creation of portable programs communicating with PCI devices
+ possible.
+