On the x86 platform the PCI bridges make PCI out instructions synchronous.
Lots of driver code relies on this and people handling ports to non x86
where the odd bridge doesn't do this have had some real fun.
PCI mmio writes are however (even on the good old x86 platform) async
Alan
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