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Date:      Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:26:28 -0700
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New Option ROM device in stable 
Message-ID:  <200107122226.f6CMQSH06998@intruder.bmah.org>
In-Reply-To: <200107122149.f6CLnpA25543@ptavv.es.net> 
References:  <200107122149.f6CLnpA25543@ptavv.es.net>

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If memory serves me right, "Kevin Oberman" wrote:
> I notice that a new device, "Option ROM", has appeared in stable as of
> a few days ago. No man page, but the driver makes me think it's to
> solve the problem of properly assigning memory space for device iomem.
> 
> Is this what it's all about?

The release notes are your friend...  :-)

# An orm(4) device has been added to claim the option ROMs in the ISA
# memory I/O space, to prevent other drivers from mistakenly assigning
# addresses that conflict with these ROMs.

For some reason, when I wrote this up (from the commit logs) I thought 
there was a manpage for this, but it looks like I was mistaken.

Bruce.




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