Date: 12 Sep 2003 09:07:43 +0100 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When to burn those bridges Message-ID: <1063354063.5536.10.camel@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20030911.153430.91755961.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <XFMail.20030910123049.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <1063213147.26798.1.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> <20030911.153430.91755961.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 22:34, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <1063213147.26798.1.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> > Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> writes: > : My feeling about that was always that the hostb driver provides > : absolutely no added value in the system. When I was developing agp > : originally, I just nuked it and kldloading agp.ko worked just fine. > > is that true even on systems with multiple host bridges? Yes. The host bridges are normally either attached as pcib devices to the nexus or handled by acpi. The hostb driver just matches against the pci devices during the toplevel pci scan and then quietens the attach so that the user doesn't appear to see the device twice.
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