Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:56:03 -0500 | From | Jon Smirl <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] quiet non-x86 option ROM warnings |
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:45:50 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> Can't the size be obtained like any other BAR ?
yes, but cards that don't fully decode their ROM address space can waste memory in copy_rom. For example I have a card around here that reports a BAR address space of 128K and has a 2K ROM in it. You only want to copy the 2K, not the 128K.
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