Re: Fwd: Patch to control VGA bus routing and active VGA device.

[Matthew Wilcox]

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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