Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:30:10 -0600 | From | Timur Tabi <> | Subject | Re: Page Attribute Table (PAT) support? |
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** Reply to message from Jeff Hartmann <jhartmann@valinux.com> on Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:45:43 -0700
> I'm actually writing support for the PAT as we speak. I already have > working code for PAT setup. Just having a parameter for ioremap is not > enough, unfortunately. According to the Intel Architecture Software > Developer's Manual we have to remove all mappings of the page that are > cached.
For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think it's a hard requirement.
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