Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: About ioremap() and L2-Cache | Date | Fri, 25 Jul 1997 09:57:05 +0100 (BST) |
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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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