Re: Exposing ROM's though sysfs
From: Martin Mares
Date: Fri Jul 30 2004 - 14:39:49 EST
Hello!
> 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.
Have a nice fortnight
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