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From: "Joakim Tjernlund" <Joakim.Tjernlund@lumentis.se>
To: "Dan Malek" <dan@embeddededge.com>
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Subject: Re: dcbz works on 862 everywhere!
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:51:21 +0100
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> Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>
> > I will removed the Guarded flag though since I don't see why it's there. Speak up
> > now if you want to have it left.
>
> Everything is there for a reason, including setting the guarded flag if
> the PTE indicates this should be done.  Since it doesn't seem to be clear
> from messages I've sent in the past, the guarded flag is used to ensure
> the proper order of operation on I/O spaces.  Any ioremap will request
> this feature.

I got the impression that the Guarded flag was ALWAYS set. Reading
the comment again I think I missunderstood(my assembly is rusty), right?

  Jocke

> -- Dan
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