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From: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: eiichiro.oiwa.nm@hitachi.com, akpm@osdl.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
	greg@kroah.com, "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18] PCI: Turn pci_fixup_video into generic for embedded VGA
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:42:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703161142.39854.jesse.barnes@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703161120.46123.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>

On Friday, March 16, 2007 10:20 am Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Are there really ia64 machines where we need to use the option ROM
> copy at 0xC0000?  If so, is this documented somewhere?  I couldn't
> find any mention in DIG64, EFI, or internal HP architecture specs.
>
> If we do need to use it, ia64 has a bit of a problem because on some
> boxes, the 0xC0000 memory supports only cacheable access, the VGA
> frame buffer at 0xA0000 supports only uncacheable access, and the
> usual ia64 ioremap mapping is a 16MB page that covers both.

Apparently Eichiro's machine needs it, and of course there are i386 and 
x86_64 machines that need it to, so it makes sense that it be generic.

Jesse

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-16 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-28  4:55 [PATCH 2.6.18] PCI: Turn pci_fixup_video into generic for embedded VGA eiichiro.oiwa.nm
2006-09-28 11:18 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-28 16:36 ` Jesse Barnes
2006-09-29  2:33   ` eiichiro.oiwa.nm
2007-03-16 17:20   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-03-16 18:42     ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2007-03-19  3:12       ` eiichiro.oiwa.nm

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