From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Kronos <kronos@people.it>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
DRI Devel <dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
fb-devel <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] New kernel API for ROMs
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 17:09:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091894996.18407.122.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040807163733.GD3714@dreamland.darkstar.lan>
On Sad, 2004-08-07 at 17:37, Kronos wrote:
> You can check and see if the ROM is really big and use vmalloc, if not
> then you use kmalloc (if I remember correctly my radeon has a 4KB ROM -
> vmalloc would be overkill).
You can also read it out to userspace in a loop in chunks thus needing
only a single 4K page or you could mmap it
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-07 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-06 21:21 New kernel API for ROMs Jon Smirl
2004-08-07 13:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-08-07 14:59 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-07 16:37 ` Kronos
2004-08-07 16:09 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-07 17:40 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-07 18:51 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-07 16:54 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Jon Smirl
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