Re: pgprot_writecombine & shub 1.x

Jesse Barnes
2005-01-19T22:36:41Z

On Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:25 pm, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:22:56 -0800, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>
> >>>>> said:
>
> Jesse> On Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:20 pm, David Mosberger
>
> Jesse> wrote:
> >> In my opinion, an EFI-based system should respect the
> >> attribute-restrictions specified in the memory-map.
>
> Jesse> That makes sense to me. Seems like we could use a whole new
> Jesse> arch abstraction for setting memory attributes (wc and
> Jesse> uncached at the very least) on page ranges, but that's a much
> Jesse> bigger task.
>
> Absolutely. Perhaps it would make sense to clean this up once the
> hot-plug stuff has settled down?

Sounds good, though that could be a long wait. Should we add this new EFI
call anyway? Seems like it'll be useful regardless...

Thanks,
Jesse