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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:42:57 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Patch to control VGA bus routing and active VGA device.
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Jon Smirl wrote:
> Is this a justification for doing device drivers for bridge chips? It
> has been mentioned before but no one has done it.


Yeah, people are usually slack and work around the problem.

A bridge driver is really wanted for several situations in today's 
hardware...

	Jeff


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