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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: XSA 154 and ISA region (640K -> 1MB) WB cache
	instead of UC
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 10:52:00 -0400
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