When to burn those bridges

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 11 22:30:17 PDT 2003


On 11-Sep-2003 M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <1063213147.26798.1.camel at builder02.qubesoft.com>
>             Doug Rabson <dfr at 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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