Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:14:17 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
       Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Patch to control VGA bus routing and active VGA device.
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:42:57PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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...

Annoyingly, we already have one, it's just special-cased for PCI Express.
On my todo for this week is to take it out of the pcie directory and fix it.

-- 
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the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those
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to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince 
himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep 
he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain
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