Re: pgprot_writecombine & shub 1.x

David Mosberger
2005-01-19T22:20:21Z

>>>>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:16:28 -0800, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com> said:

Jesse> No, it still depends on pgprot_writecombined, which is ia64
Jesse> specific.

Not exactly ia64-specific, but yeah, I see x86 doesn't have it (I
thought it did).

Jesse> x86 has its own way to set the wc bit and afaik doesn't have
Jesse> the same aliasing issues that ia64 has.

In my opinion, an EFI-based system should respect the
attribute-restrictions specified in the memory-map.

--david