From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
To: linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>, Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Exposing ROM's though sysfs
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:12:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407301412.30155.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040730210755.23849.qmail@web14921.mail.yahoo.com>
On Friday, July 30, 2004 2:07 pm, Jon Smirl wrote:
> --- Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> wrote:
> > We can get away without caching a copy of the ROM in the kernel if we
> > require
> > userspace to cache it before the driver takes control of the card
> > (i.e. at
> > POST time). Otherwise, the kernel will have to take care of it.
>
> You may also need ROM access when resuming a suspended device so we
> need to plan for that case too.
The kernel will need it? Or userspace will need it to resume the card? If
the latter, then it should be possible to have userspace cache it the first
time it's read or something, to be on the safe side for video cards.
Jesse
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-30 21:13 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
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 [this message]
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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