PCI programming

We are designing a simple PCB for PCI Bus which will do only one function, transfer block of data to the system memory using bus master on the PCI bus.
Do we have to first program the chipset (controller) which control the PCI bus to achieve this gool? or just when the hardware on the PCB request use of the bus(REQ#), the whole transfer cycle then will be completed automatically under control of the chipset?
if any software is needed, Please help to find examples to be run on Windows 98 using Borland C++.