Re: pgprot_writecombine() and PATs on x86

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 20:41:08 Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:19:27PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>  > On Wednesday 25 April 2007 20:02:26 Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > > Hi Eric,
>  > > 
>  > > Where do your patches to add an implementation of
>  > > pgprot_writecombine() using PATs on x86 stand?  
>  > 
>  > It's on my todo list.
> 
> Whats the status on the code at ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/pat/patches ?
> I've not given it much more than a quick skim, so I'm not sure what
> it's capable of/what its missing etc..

That code has a couple of problems and is relatively broken

-Andi
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