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Subject: Re: When to burn those bridges
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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?

Warner