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From: Patrick McFarland <diablod3@gmail.com>
To: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	akpm@osdl.org, segher@kernel.crashing.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: Opinion on ordering of writel vs. stores to RAM
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:10:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609091510.20393.diablod3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4503091C.1050501@intel.com>

On Saturday 09 September 2006 14:34, Auke Kok wrote:
> I'm not sure what bcm43xx chip will work with IA64, or if people actually
> have itanium laptops(!) or MIPS, but for e1000 it definately fixes ordering
> problems on IA64.

Sometimes I wonder, with archs like IA64, why Linus just doesn't pretend IA64 
doesn't exist and refuse to support it. Its such a horribly botched mess from 
what I've seen on LKML.

> Auke


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-09 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-09  2:03 Opinion on ordering of writel vs. stores to RAM Paul Mackerras
2006-09-09  2:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-09  3:02   ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-09  3:54     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-09  7:24     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-09  9:34     ` David Miller
2006-09-09  9:55       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-09 10:08         ` David Miller
2006-09-10 17:18           ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-10 19:35             ` Alan Cox
2006-09-10 21:25               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-10 22:23                 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-10 22:18                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11 13:19                     ` Jes Sorensen
2006-09-10 23:35                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-11  0:12                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11  0:34                     ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-11  1:04                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11  1:13                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-11  1:35                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11  9:02                     ` Alan Cox
2006-09-11  9:23                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11  0:25                 ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-11  0:54                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-11  1:10                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11  1:48                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-11  3:53                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11 18:12                     ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-11  1:00                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11 18:08                     ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-11 21:32                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-10 20:01             ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-11 13:21               ` David Miller
2006-09-11 14:17                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-12  0:32                   ` David Miller
2006-09-12  0:49                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-12 16:47                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-12  0:54                     ` Roland Dreier
2006-09-09 11:16       ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-09  7:23   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-09  9:38     ` David Miller
2006-09-09 15:09     ` Alan Cox
2006-09-10 17:19       ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-10 17:35         ` Michael Buesch
2006-09-10 17:49           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-10 18:02             ` Michael Buesch
2006-09-09 15:08   ` Alan Cox
2006-09-09 18:34   ` Auke Kok
2006-09-09 19:10     ` Patrick McFarland [this message]
2006-09-09 15:06 ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-11  5:03 Michael Chan
2006-09-11  5:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-12  4:30 Albert Cahalan
2006-09-12  5:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-12  6:04   ` Albert Cahalan
2006-09-12  6:12     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-12  7:09       ` Albert Cahalan
2006-09-12  7:17         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-12  7:21           ` Albert Cahalan

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