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Subject: Re: legacy VGA device requirements (was: Exposing ROM's though
	sysfs)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
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On Gwe, 2004-08-13 at 16:53, Jon Smirl wrote:
> What should the API for this look like? We could add a VGA={0/1}
> attribute to all the VGA devices in sysfs.
> 
> But then how do you:
> 1) list all of the conflicting VGA devices in a domain?
> 2) turn off all the VGA devices in a domain?

1. Is part of the PCI specification since there is a PCI class for
VGA video devices. 2 follows naturally from 1