Re: Possible PCI subsystem bug in 2.4

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 4 May 2001 16:52:07 +0100 (BST)

> There are a couple of options here.
> 1) read the MTRRs unless the BIOS is braindead it will set up that area as
> write-back. At any rate we shouldn't ever try to allocate a pci region
> that is write-back cached.

'unless the BIOS is braindead'. Right. We only got into this problem because
the BIOS _was_ braindead.

Alan

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