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.
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:14:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050124201417.GN31455@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41F54FC1.6080207@pobox.com>
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.
--
"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon
the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those
conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-24 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-18 3:43 Jon Smirl
2005-01-18 17:46 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-18 19:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-18 21:06 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-22 19:04 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-24 17:25 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-24 17:53 ` Jesse Barnes
[not found] ` <41ED3BD2.1090105@pobox.com>
[not found] ` <9e473391050122083822a7f81c@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <200501240847.51208.jbarnes@sgi.com>
[not found] ` <20050124175131.GM31455@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
2005-01-24 19:17 ` Fwd: " Jon Smirl
2005-01-24 19:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-24 19:55 ` Russell King
2005-01-24 23:11 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-25 4:24 ` Greg KH
2005-01-27 9:59 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-27 16:28 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-28 17:32 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-28 18:36 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-28 19:15 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-28 19:26 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-28 19:34 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-28 18:41 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-28 19:33 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-28 19:41 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-28 20:12 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-28 20:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-01-28 20:07 ` Russell King
2005-01-31 16:01 ` Alan Cox
2005-02-01 6:38 ` Greg KH
2005-02-01 16:24 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-30 7:51 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-24 20:14 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2005-01-24 20:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
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