Re: [patch] VRAM detection in controlfb

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Michel Lanners wrote:

So I guess the optimum would be to mark the VRAM cacheable, but in a way that
writes don't go into the cache. Would that be write-through?

That's indeed write-through. Note that writes will still be cached in such a
way that a consecutive read from the same location will return the cached
value.  But writes will immediately be sent to the host bridge.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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