Re: Exposing ROM's though sysfs

From: Jesse Barnes (jbarnes_at_engr.sgi.com)
Date: 07/30/04

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    To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
    Date:	Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:12:10 -0700
    
    

    On Friday, July 30, 2004 11:12 am, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
    > How about reading the contents of the ROM at pci_scan_bus() time? It'd
    > waste a bunch of memory, but hey, people love sysfs.

    That might be a good solution, actually. Then it would be cached for devices
    that don't want you to look at it after they've been POSTed too.

    Jesse
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