On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 17:59 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:47:15 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We could provide additional helpers, like pci_find_rom_partition(), > > which takes the architecture code as an argument. It would check the > > signature, and iterate all "partitions" til it finds the proper > > architecture (or none). > > The spec allows for it but has anyone actually seen a ROM with > multiple images in it? I haven't but I only work on x86.
Yes, I pretty sure some video cards did that in the past at least, and maybe some scsi cards. It was a while ago, I don't know if this is still true, but it's relatively easy to do, let's just hide all of this logic, along with size & signature checking in a single place, that way, we don't have to duplicate all that logic in drivers... Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
