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.
 
 
+############################################################################
+
+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
-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)
 
@@ -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
-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.
-   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
+   lsdev + odmget      used on AIX
    libpci              used on NetBSD
+   dumps               reading of dumps produced by `lspci -x'
+                       (this one is not autodetected)
 
 
 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
-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