Re: Exposing ROM's though sysfs

From: Alan Cox (alan_at_lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: 07/31/04

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    To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
    Date:	Fri, 30 Jul 2004 23:41:06 +0100
    
    

    On Gwe, 2004-07-30 at 21:20, Jesse Barnes wrote:
    > I think Martin's suggestion of just caching them all at probe time (or
    > optionally at driver attach time) is probably the simplest and easiest to get
    > right. It could be controllable via a boot time parameter. But I'm not
    > entirely opposed to using pci quirks.

    You guys just have *too* much RAM.

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