From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Patch to control VGA bus routing and active VGA device.
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:25:51 -0800
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On Saturday, January 22, 2005 11:04 am, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > Well, not all of them, which is why I asked.  Though obviously this patch
> > will need some very platform specific bits at any rate.
>
> What is a case of where the VGA forwarding bit isn't in the bridge
> control? It's part of the PCI spec to have it.

Hmm... lemme check my specs.  It doesn't look like we support that aspect of 
the PCI spec in our bridges.

> We ultimately need both pieces of code, VGA bus routing, and card
> specific VGA enabling code. Even without the card specific code the
> routing code is still useful.

Oh right, doing card specific up/down will allow multiple cards to share the 
same bus, which would be nice.

Jesse
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