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SubjectRe: [PATCH] quiet non-x86 option ROM warnings
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On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 17:59 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:47:15 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > We could provide additional helpers, like pci_find_rom_partition(),
> > which takes the architecture code as an argument. It would check the
> > signature, and iterate all "partitions" til it finds the proper
> > architecture (or none).
>
> The spec allows for it but has anyone actually seen a ROM with
> multiple images in it? I haven't but I only work on x86.

Yes, I pretty sure some video cards did that in the past at least, and
maybe some scsi cards. It was a while ago, I don't know if this is still
true, but it's relatively easy to do, let's just hide all of this logic,
along with size & signature checking in a single place, that way, we
don't have to duplicate all that logic in drivers...

Ben.


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