Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:07:06 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:53:42 -0800
Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> wrote:

> AFAIK mapping PCI memory WB is not allowed, so WC is really our only
> choice.

afaik that depends on the BAR being prefetchable or not.

(and by your argument, ioremap_cached() would not be useful, and since that was, until
2.6.25-rc1, the default behavior for ioremap(), would have caused massive problems)


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