From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g71JHhRw012804 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:17:43 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g71JHhu6012803 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:17:43 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from tibook.netx4.com (154-84-51-66.reonbroadband.com [66.51.84.154]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g71JHbRw012790; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:17:37 -0700 Received: from embeddededge.com (IDENT:dan@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tibook.netx4.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g71JIpv00702; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:18:51 -0400 Message-ID: <3D49899B.5080203@embeddededge.com> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 15:18:51 -0400 From: Dan Malek Organization: Embedded Edge, LLC. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020411 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Baechle CC: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [update] [patch] linux: Cache coherency fixes References: <20020801184929.B22824@dea.linux-mips.net> <20020801195820.F22824@dea.linux-mips.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Ralf Baechle wrote: > Just a small detail. Nest conditions several times and the spaghetti > starts :-) Other cache coherency challenged processor architectures have adopted the same CONFIG_NONCOHERENT_IO configuration option. Some of these could eventually find their way into generic kernel software and clean up the architecture specific code. -- Dan