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DateTue, 29 Apr 2008 14:20:23 +0100
FromAlan Cox <>
Subject[PATCH] toshiba: Use ioremap_cached
The switch of ioremap to default to uncached doesn't break this driver
but it does needlessly slow it down as BIOS space is cachable and this
driver is quite happy scanning cached ROM space.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.25-mm1/drivers/char/toshiba.c linux-2.6.25-mm1/drivers/char/toshiba.c
--- linux.vanilla-2.6.25-mm1/drivers/char/toshiba.c 2008-04-28 11:36:48.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.25-mm1/drivers/char/toshiba.c 2008-04-28 11:51:54.000000000 +0100
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@
int i,major,minor,day,year,month,flag;
unsigned char signature[7] = { 0x54,0x4f,0x53,0x48,0x49,0x42,0x41 };
SMMRegisters regs;
- void __iomem *bios = ioremap(0xf0000, 0x10000);
+ void __iomem *bios = ioremap_cache(0xf0000, 0x10000);

if (!bios)
return -ENOMEM;

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