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SubjectRe: About ioremap() and L2-Cache
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> Asus' Award bios docs mention that enabling write-combining might crash 
> the 'puter... Is enabling write combining supported under Linux? ;)
> (don't exactly want to set "dangerous" options in bios... 'due cmos
> changes might be one-way only in some situations...)
> [any other stuff I should know about ppro's under Linux?]

Write combining is the sort of thing you want to enable from user space as it
breaks a few video cards and works wonderously well on most. You can do this
as root under iopl(3);


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