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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 2003 01:30:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: When to burn those bridges
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030912013006.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030911.153430.91755961.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On 11-Sep-2003 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?

hostb exists to implement device_quiet(). :)

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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