From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Barnes Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:36:41 +0000 Subject: Re: pgprot_writecombine & shub 1.x Message-Id: <200501191436.41613.jbarnes@sgi.com> List-Id: References: <200501111200.02504.jbarnes@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200501111200.02504.jbarnes@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:25 pm, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:22:56 -0800, Jesse Barnes > >>>>> 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