Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 23:37:48 +0200
From: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
To: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
       Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
       Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
       linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, greg@kroah.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Add a "enable" sysfs attribute to the pci devices to allow userspace (Xorg) to enable devices without doing foul direct access
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Hello!

> By allowing tools to read the rom from the pci device itself, instead of
> whichever device's rom happens to be at 0xC0000.

The ROMs are already accessible through sysfs, aren't they?

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