From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267809AbUG3TkC (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:40:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267803AbUG3TkC (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:40:02 -0400 Received: from web14923.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.225.7]:50270 "HELO web14923.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267809AbUG3Tjj (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:39:39 -0400 Message-ID: <20040730193932.20813.qmail@web14923.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:39:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: Exposing ROM's though sysfs To: Martin Mares Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Jesse Barnes , Christoph Hellwig , lkml , linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Alan Cox In-Reply-To: <20040730193559.GA4687@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- Martin Mares 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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo