Re: [PATCH] quiet non-x86 option ROM warnings

From: Jon Smirl
Date: Thu Feb 17 2005 - 18:03:16 EST


On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:45:50 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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