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    SubjectRe: Exposing ROM's though sysfs
    --- 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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