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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:56:03 -0500
From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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