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SubjectRE: page allocation/attributes question (i386/x86_64 specific)
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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 11:56 -0500, Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com wrote:
>> Andi Kleen wrote:
>>>
>>> I only fixed it for x86-64 correct. Does it work for you on x86-64?
>>>
>>> If yes then the changes could be brought over.
>>>
>>> What do you all need is for anyways?
>>>
>>> -Andi
>>
>> We need this because the NVidia driver uses change_page_attr() to
>> make pages non-cachable, which is causing systems to spontaneously
>> reboot when it gets a page that's in the first 8MB of memory.
>>
>
> that's not a linux problem since there isn't really a linux driver
> that does this ;)

That's why I didn't mention what failed in the first place! :P
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