Added more parts of the Windows port.

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-This package contains the PCI Utilities, version 2.1.99-test1.
+This package contains the PCI Utilities, version @VERSION@.

 
 

-Copyright (c) 1997--2003 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
+Copyright (c) 1997--2004 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>

 
 All files in this package can be freely distributed and used according
 to the terms of the GNU General Public License, either version 2 or
 (at your opinion) any newer version. See http://www.gnu.org/ for details.
 
 
 
 All files in this package can be freely distributed and used according
 to the terms of the GNU General Public License, either version 2 or
 (at your opinion) any newer version. See http://www.gnu.org/ for details.
 
 

+############################################################################
+
+Beware, this is a preliminary test version!  Anything might not work!
+
+Some more things I intend to merge before the 2.2.0 release:
+
+   o  pcimodules and possibly other Linux module related stuff
+   o  New ID's from the pciids project
+   o  Avoid calling show_ext_caps() for non-ext devices.
+
+############################################################################
+
+
+

 1. What's that?
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 The PCI Utilities package contains a library for portable access to PCI bus
 configuration registers and several utilities based on this library.
 
 Currently, pciutils work on all versions of Linux and they also have somewhat
 1. What's that?
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 The PCI Utilities package contains a library for portable access to PCI bus
 configuration registers and several utilities based on this library.
 
 Currently, pciutils work on all versions of Linux and they also have somewhat

-experimental support for FreeBSD, NetBSD and AIX. It should be very easy to add
-support for other systems as well (volunteers wanted; if you want to try that,
-please send the patches to me, so that I can include them in the next version).
+experimental support for FreeBSD, NetBSD, AIX, GNU Hurd and Solaris/x86.
+It should be very easy to add support for other systems as well (volunteers
+wanted; if you want to try that, I'll be very glad to see the patches and
+include them in the next version).

 
 The utilities include:  (See manual pages for more details)
 
 
 The utilities include:  (See manual pages for more details)
 


@@ -58,16 +73,19 @@ sf.net web page.
 4. Available access methods
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 The library (and therefore all the utilities) know a variety of methods for
 4. Available access methods
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 The library (and therefore all the utilities) know a variety of methods for

-accessing the PCI registers. Here is a list of them:
+accessing the PCI registers. Here is a list of them, sorted by autodetection
+priority:

 
    /proc/bus/pci       on all Linux systems since kernel 2.1.82.
 
    /proc/bus/pci       on all Linux systems since kernel 2.1.82.

-   direct port access  on all Linux systems with i386, to be used when
-                       /proc/bus/pci is unavailable or you want to scan
-                       the bus manually when hunting kernel bugs.
-   dumps               reading of dumps produced by `lspci -x'.
-   lsdev + odmget      used on AIX
+   /sys/bus/pci                on all Linux systems since kernel 2.5.xx.
+   direct port access  on i386 systems running Linux, GNU Hurd or Solaris/x86;
+                       available only to root, useful if no other access
+                       method is available or you want to hunt kernel bugs

    /dev/pci            used on FreeBSD
    /dev/pci            used on FreeBSD

+   lsdev + odmget      used on AIX

    libpci              used on NetBSD
    libpci              used on NetBSD

+   dumps               reading of dumps produced by `lspci -x'
+                       (this one is not autodetected)

 
 
 5. Using the library
 
 
 5. Using the library


@@ -93,7 +111,7 @@ the Linux PCI support will be probably discussed there, too.
 7. Miscellanea
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 You also might want to look at the pciutils web page containing release
 7. Miscellanea
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 You also might want to look at the pciutils web page containing release

-notes and other news: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/pciutils.html .
+notes and other news: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/pciutils.shtml .

 
 There also exists a utility called PowerTweak which is able to fine tune
 parameters of many chipsets much better than the Bridge Optimization code
 
 There also exists a utility called PowerTweak which is able to fine tune
 parameters of many chipsets much better than the Bridge Optimization code