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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] generic device DMA implementation
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On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:49:10PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> >
> >
> >Hmm... that doesn't seem sufficient to explain it.
> >
> >Some background: I work with PPC embedded chips (the 4xx family) whose
> >only way to get consistent memory is by entirely disabling the cache.

> What do you mean with "disable"?
> Do you have to disable the cache entirely when you encounter the first 
> pci_alloc_consistent() call, or do you disable the cache just for the 
> region that is returned by pci_alloc_consistent()?

Just for the region - it is an attribute in the PTE.

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