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From: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
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 21:35:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040730193559.GA4687@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040730193011.5239.qmail@web14929.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello!

> 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.

				Have a nice fortnight
-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
Never make any mistaeks.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-30 19:37 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 [this message]
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
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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