switching linux kernels
    Dan Malek 
    dan at mvista.com
       
    Wed Sep 27 16:59:09 EST 2000
    
    
  
Graham Stoney wrote:
>
> Turning off copy-back has a global performance hit, so it's a pretty nasty
> workaround for cache coherency bugs in a single driver.
Yep, you should really fix the driver.....
> ....... does it use insx/outsx &
> friends from asm/io.h, or does it dereference pointers directly, forgetting
> the eieio's?
Please don't use in/out macros on PowerPC....especially on 8xx their
underlying address arithmetic will likely break more things that it
fixes.
Use memory mapped I/O (readb/writeb, etc.) and ioremap().....
	-- Dan
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