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From: "Allen Curtis" <acurtis@onz.com>
To: "Dan Brennan" <dmb8@optonline.net>
Cc: "Paul Mackerras" <paulus@samba.org>,
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Subject: RE: eieio rule-of-thumb?
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 07:42:12 -0700
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> The Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O (eieio) instruction is used to
> ensure memory
> reordering of noncacheable memory access. Since the 603e does not
> reorder
> noncacheable memory accesses, the eieio instruction is treated as a
> no-op.

That make me feel better for my processor anyway....

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