Delay in copying Linuxbios to ram

SONE Takeshi ts1 at cma.co.jp
Wed Apr 30 04:48:00 CEST 2003


On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 01:55:16PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Steve Gehlbach <steve at nexpath.com> writes:
> 
> > Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > 
> > > ``Write Protect'' in the mtrrs does not mean write protected.  It is a strange
> > 
> > > messed up form of write-through.  In particular it dumps the cache on writes
> > > it does not forbid writes.
> > > Unless you know of a situation where write protect is more appropriate please
> > > use write-through.  It is less confusing, and since no one is writing to that
> > > area anyway it gives the exact same result, reads are cached.
> > > Eric


So why did you use WP cache for "XIP" area?
Using same type for both area makes sense.

-- 
Takeshi



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