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From: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: Exposing ROM's though sysfs
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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.

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