From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Hiroshi Miura <miura@da-cha.org>
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com
Subject: Re: NatSemi Geode improvement
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:10:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021018141009.A26652@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021018022901.CA2D811782A@triton2>; from miura@da-cha.org on Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:29:01AM +0900
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:29:01AM +0900, Hiroshi Miura wrote:
> I try now using set6x86 to set these registers, then can do most of these
> except for set_cx86_memwb().
>
> To set the memory write-back, I need to set the CR0 which needs special previlleges.
> set6x86 cannot set CR0.
>
> the set_cx86_memwb() need to be done in the kernel
> the others has no reason to do that.
> it is ok?
It's all __init anyway, so it's ok I guess.
The added bloat for non-cyrix users is in the region of a few bytes...
My initial idea for this sort of thing was going to be to dump it
all in the early-userspace thing that Al Viro was hacking up.
Al, anything appearing in a last minute merge over the next
few days ?
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-18 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-17 17:12 NatSemi Geode improvement Hiroshi Miura
2002-10-17 17:20 ` Dave Jones
2002-10-18 2:29 ` Hiroshi Miura
2002-10-18 12:10 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-10-18 17:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-10-22 21:14 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-19 16:24 ` Bernhard Wesely
2002-10-21 14:06 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-22 0:12 ` Hiroshi Miura
2002-10-22 10:00 ` Alan Cox
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2002-10-26 7:43 ` Hiroshi Miura
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