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From: pwaechtler@mac.com (Peter Waechtler)
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:00:42 +0200
Subject: since when does ARM map the kernel memory in sections?
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Am Dienstag, 26. April 2011, 12:33:29 schrieb Per Forlin:
> On 23 April 2011 11:23, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> > 2011/4/22 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>:
> >> Plus, I was told new MMC standard has "write reliable" option...
> > 
> > I think Per F?rlin looked into reliable write. The latest eMMC cards
> > has this, but OTOMH it was too darn slow to be used on current
> > chips/"cards".
> > 
> > Per, Sebastian: any details?
> 
> I had plans to add reliable writes and do benchmarking but I never got
> to it. Right now I have no plans to pick it up.
> 
> > Yours,
> > Linus Walleij
> 
> Regards,
> Per

As far as I understood the spec, reliable write only makes statements like
either the old data is still intact - or the new data was written 
(completely).

	Peter