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From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Exposing ROM's though sysfs
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:12:10 -0700
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On Friday, July 30, 2004 11:12 am, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> How about reading the contents of the ROM at pci_scan_bus() time?  It'd
> waste a bunch of memory, but hey, people love sysfs.

That might be a good solution, actually.  Then it would be cached for devices 
that don't want you to look at it after they've been POSTed too.

Jesse