Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:39:32 -0700 (PDT) | From | Jon Smirl <> | Subject | Re: Exposing ROM's though sysfs |
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--- 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.
===== Jon Smirl jonsmirl@yahoo.com
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