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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Bootup messages with PCI
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james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) wrote:
>When booting with my shiny new Triton motherboard, I get the following
>messages:-
>Probing for devicecs on the pci0 bus:
>	configuration mode 1 allows 32 devices.
>pci0:0: INTEL CORPORATION, device=0x122d, class=bridge [not supported]
>pci0:7: INTEL CORPORATION, device=0x122e, class=bridge [not supported]

No problem here.  "[not supported]" should be taken to mean "[there is 
no specific driver loaded to support this device, but it may not need 
one]".  Bridge chips don't in general need driver support - once they 
have been initialised they just get on with their job.

I believe the message has recently been changed to avoid the confusion.