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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:28:57 +1000
From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 53/61] 82xx: Set NOT_COHERENT_CACHE on 8272 with PCI.
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 08:36:11PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> I've seen significant network corruption on a PCI network
> card (e1000) with the mpc8272ads; the corruption went away
> when I set CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>

Hrm... I for one would be a lot more comfortable with this patch if
you had a theoretical explanation for why it's necessary, in addition
to the "seems to fix things".

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