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.
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Takeshi
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