On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 03:31:13AM -0500, Robin Holt wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 08:33:57AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:59:37PM -0500, Robin Holt wrote: > > > I am not sure how to read this. The fetchop function is a feature specifically > > > in the SN2 memory controller. Are you saying we should have a driver that > > > provides fetchops for all ia64? That seems wrong since it is a hardware feature. > > > > > > If, on the other hand, you are saying that the uncached and cached drivers > > > should be available for all ia64 and the fetchop only if you are on sn2, I > > > can understand that. That actually seems rather reasonable. > > > > Yes, that's what I meant. Even if it's mostly useful for SGI's userland > > it's implementation shouldn't depend on a SN2 kernel if it doesn't use any > > SN2-specific functionality. > > Do any other processors have the write combining features of the ia64? Is this > type of memory useable by any other processor? If not, does this driver belong > in the arch/ia64/kernel directory? Umm, yes I guess it'll be ia64-specific at least as a start, I just wanted to avoid having it SN2-specific. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Sep 10 04:32:32 2004
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