From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
To: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Exposing ROM's though sysfs
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:39:32 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040730193932.20813.qmail@web14923.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040730193559.GA4687@ucw.cz>
--- Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > Another idea, it's ok to read the ROM when there is no device
> driver
> > loaded. When the driver for one of these card loads it could
> trigger a
> > copy of the ROM into RAM and cache it in a PCI structure.
>
> I really doubt it's worth the RAM wasted by the automatic caching of
> ROM's
> which will be probably left unused in 99.9% of cases.
The caching is only going to happen for cards with minimal address
decoder implementations. As far as I know there is only one card that
does this.
=====
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@yahoo.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-30 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-30 16:53 Exposing ROM's though sysfs Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 17:10 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 17:19 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 17:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-30 17:57 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 18:06 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 18:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-07-30 18:12 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 18:20 ` Martin Mares
2004-07-30 18:49 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 19:55 ` Greg KH
2004-07-30 20:05 ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 20:16 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 20:29 ` Greg KH
2004-07-30 18:59 ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 19:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-07-30 19:30 ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 19:35 ` Martin Mares
2004-07-30 19:39 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2004-07-30 19:46 ` Martin Mares
2004-07-30 20:03 ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 20:10 ` Martin Mares
2004-07-30 20:13 ` Martin Mares
2004-07-30 20:25 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 20:32 ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 20:41 ` Martin Mares
2004-07-30 20:49 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 20:54 ` Martin Mares
2004-07-30 21:00 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 21:07 ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 21:12 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 19:47 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-07-30 22:18 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2004-07-30 22:39 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-30 19:25 ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 19:35 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-07-30 19:41 ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 19:48 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-07-30 20:20 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 22:41 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <1091207136.2762.181.camel@rohan.arnor.net>
2004-07-30 17:24 ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 19:14 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-07-30 20:26 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 22:36 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-03 21:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-04 0:55 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-04 0:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-04 1:37 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-04 1:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-04 2:16 ` Jesse Barnes
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