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SubjectRe: [PATCH] quiet non-x86 option ROM warnings
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:29:53 -0800, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, February 17, 2005 8:33 am, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > No, pci_map_rom shouldn't test the signature IMHO. While PCI ROMs should
> > > have the signature to be recognized as containing valid firmware images
> > > on x86 BIOSes an OF, it's just a convention on these platforms, and I
> > > would rather let people put whatever they want in those ROMs and still
> > > let them map it...
> >
> > pci_map_rom will return a pointer to any ROM it finds. It the
> > signature is invalid the size returned will be zero. Is this ok or do
> > we want it to do something different?
>
> Shouldn't it return NULL if the signature is invalid?
>

But then you couldn't get to your non-standard ROMs

> Jesse
>


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