Re: New kernel API for ROMs

On Sad, 2004-08-07 at 18:40, Jon Smirl wrote:

We have to copy the whole thing when the driver tells us to. After we
copy the ROM the hardware is going to use the address decoder for
something else. There is no safe way to get back to the ROM again other
than to unload the device driver.

Good point on mmap not working yes. We can still copy it in 4K chunks to
userspace though not keep it in kernel. The rom boot stuff in the design
is in user space.



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