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On Mon, 2005-Nov-21 16:23:45 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>...or keep the firmware image in memory after loading it the first
>time around.

This strikes me as a waste of wired memory - most firmware images
are non-trivial in size.  If we supported pageable kernel memory,
this might be more attractive - it would still use KVA but at least
something else could usefully utilise the RAM.

-- 
Peter Jeremy