Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964805AbWIITMO (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:12:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751376AbWIITMO (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:12:14 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.234]:18227 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751374AbWIITMO (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:12:14 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=fdFLJSuIwPBAnJADajnTTk/JS4fDnn3guHkxnb96s2hUfQirxC4BSW5pkRznr9ejZbjBSXhwwdnb/iXoGBIELsf8O0ibPitEM3rHHvxyI7evF4usV1RTW/tfKHpA6vPCwLzEonofFSgNt7vhoY2ADXfHDLSYs08m/9Z9343hQUE= From: Patrick McFarland To: Auke Kok Subject: Re: Opinion on ordering of writel vs. stores to RAM Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:10:19 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 Cc: Linus Torvalds , Paul Mackerras , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, akpm@osdl.org, segher@kernel.crashing.org, davem@davemloft.net References: <17666.8433.533221.866510@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <4503091C.1050501@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <4503091C.1050501@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609091510.20393.diablod3@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 947 Lines: 24 On Saturday 09 September 2006 14:34, Auke Kok wrote: > I'm not sure what bcm43xx chip will work with IA64, or if people actually > have itanium laptops(!) or MIPS, but for e1000 it definately fixes ordering > problems on IA64. Sometimes I wonder, with archs like IA64, why Linus just doesn't pretend IA64 doesn't exist and refuse to support it. Its such a horribly botched mess from what I've seen on LKML. > Auke -- Patrick McFarland || http://AdTerrasPerAspera.com "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/