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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:14:16 +0000
Subject: Re: Uncached memory allocator for ia64.
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>>>>> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 06:04:51 -0500, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> said:

  Robin> That is exactly what it does, but I was wondering if there are other
  Robin> examples of drivers that do this.  If not, I would still like to
  Robin> push for doing the minimum necessary to keep from designing something
  Robin> that has no users.

There certainly have been requests for that in the past.  I think one
such request came from someone building cluster interconnects.  Also,
on some platforms it is helpful to map the AGP memory via
write-combine, though we fixed that particular issue for ia64 by
requiring write-back mapping support.

	--david