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

From: Patrick McFarland
Date: Sat Sep 09 2006 - 15:14:29 EST


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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