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From: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c
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On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > If it makes it easier for some, I consider poweroff not as an act unto 
> > itself, but as a transition to state D3cold. :)  And since we will 
> 
> That isnt neccessarily a good idea. Not every BIOS is terribly keen when
> faced with a soft boot and someone having powered off all the PCI bridges.

You can get around that by creating a PCI bridge driver. There really 
isn't much that you want to do to a bridge anyway, even on power 
transitions. Remove would be simply something like (I think) Jeff 
mentioned later - simply restore config space to it's boot-time 
configuration. 

	-pat


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