Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] New kernel API for ROMs

On Sad, 2004-08-07 at 17:37, Kronos wrote:

You can check and see if the ROM is really big and use vmalloc, if not
then you use kmalloc (if I remember correctly my radeon has a 4KB ROM -
vmalloc would be overkill).

You can also read it out to userspace in a loop in chunks thus needing
only a single 4K page or you could mmap it



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