Re: Exposing ROM's though sysfs

From: Martin Mares (mj_at_ucw.cz)
Date: 07/30/04

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    Date:	Fri, 30 Jul 2004 21:35:59 +0200
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@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 

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