Re: [PATCH 1/10] Cr4 is valid on some 486s

[Andi Kleen]

On Sunday 13 November 2005 18:26, Alan Cox wrote:

> I'd hope the vendors are not doing that by default because we have
> kernel code that uses lock against not other processors but other bus
> masters. The ECC code is one example. 

It's a bad hack anyways. Better would be probably to use a uncached WC write.
I would rather use that.

-Andi
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