From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: New kernel API for ROMs Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 19:51:51 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1091904710.18813.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20040807174057.35529.qmail@web14922.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040807174057.35529.qmail@web14922.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jon Smirl Cc: Kronos , Geert Uytterhoeven , DRI Devel , fb-devel On Sad, 2004-08-07 at 18:40, Jon Smirl wrote: > We have to copy the whole thing when the driver tells us to. After we > copy the ROM the hardware is going to use the address decoder for > something else. There is no safe way to get back to the ROM again other > than to unload the device driver. Good point on mmap not working yes. We can still copy it in 4K chunks to userspace though not keep it in kernel. The rom boot stuff in the design is in user space. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com