Subject: Re: access to external proms for PCI
To: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/13/2005 09:45:33
On Dec 13, 2005, at 9:28 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> Johan Danielsson wrote:
>
>> FWIW, there's a CardBus function to map EXROM already. Whatever you
>> decide to do should probably be synced with that (as they are
>> ~identical).
>>
>> /Johan
>>
>>
> Thanks for the pointer.
>
> It looks like CardBus does this differently -- it maps each ROM up  
> into
> memory space, and copies them out, then parses them into separate
> structures.   This is all done at initialization time.

Right.  Isn't this because CardBus stores the CIS information in the  
expansion ROM?

-- thorpej