Re: Exposing ROM's though sysfs

Jon Smirl
2004-07-30T19:40:02Z

--- Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > 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.

The caching is only going to happen for cards with minimal address
decoder implementations. As far as I know there is only one card that
does this.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@yahoo.com

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