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Date:      Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:09:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, Daryl Chance <dchance@valuedata.net>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 4.1 Release....MIIBUS
Message-ID:  <200008232209.PAA35866@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008232149.PAA52708@harmony.village.org> "from Warner Losh at Aug 23, 2000 03:49:58 pm"

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Warner Losh writes:
> : So why is it a separate option?
> 
> because it is a driver.  Why is pci a separate driver?  While most
> computers have it, not all do.  Likewise with miibus.

Ah.. but this analogy is not exact, because (for example)
"device ed0" does not require PCI, wheras all of these miibus
drivers do..

But you're probably right, since it's a driver maybe that's
a good enough reason.

-Archie

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