SiS630 Software Watchdog Timer

[Eric W. Biederman]

Steve Gehlbach <steve at nexpath.com> writes:

> Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Steve Gehlbach wrote:
> >
> >> Maybe it is related to running at 0xffff0000 instead of 0xf0000.  Did we
> >> cached that region?  The mtrr code is there but I have not checked through it
> 
> >> to see what regions are cached.
> > I am almost certain we do not cache that region. That might be it.
> > ron
> 
> 
> How about using XIP_ROM_SIZE and XIP_ROM_BASE; seems to setup WP caching on
> variable MTRR 0x203 (mem type=5).  Or does this have other effects; maybe use a
> different option with same code?

XIP is short for Execute in place.  And that is exactly what it is designed for.

Eric