linux-kernel - Re: Opinion on ordering of writel vs. stores to RAM

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Date:	Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:10:19 -0400
From:	Patrick McFarland <diablod3@...il.com>
To:	Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	akpm@...l.org, segher@...nel.crashing.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: Opinion on ordering of writel vs. stores to RAM

On Saturday 09 September 2006 14:34, Auke Kok wrote:
> I'm not sure what bcm43xx chip will work with IA64, or if people actually
> have itanium laptops(!) or MIPS, but for e1000 it definately fixes ordering
> problems on IA64.

Sometimes I wonder, with archs like IA64, why Linus just doesn't pretend IA64 
doesn't exist and refuse to support it. Its such a horribly botched mess from 
what I've seen on LKML.

> Auke


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