Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:28:22 -0500 (CDT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: Uncacheable memory? |
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Hi,
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Philip Blundell wrote: > > > >Is there a way to allocate memory in the kernel that you could mark as > > >uncacheable? I'm currently running with 2.2.10, and would like to mark > > >a region of memory I acquire with kmalloc as uncacheable. Thanks. > > > > You can't "mark" an area as uncacheable as such, but you can create an > > alias mapping for it that is uncached. The SA-1100 framebuffer driver > > does this, I think. Let me know if you have trouble figuring out how to > > do it. > > also there is ioremap_nocache() ... > I checked, and this doesn't appear to be implemented for the ARM EBSA-285 architecture. It is #defined to be a plain old ioremap.
> -- mingo >
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