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| author | Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> | 2005-05-01 08:58:49 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-05-01 08:58:49 -0700 |
| commit | a6954ba2e8d344a07e066737827116eb7bc0fdcd (patch) | |
| tree | 91cb182587ff746d0b9a565bbef34b0f4fb8b7da /arch/i386/kernel | |
| parent | 48c88211a65bc30f030fe228bda30fda870deb90 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] Enable write combining for server works LE rev > 6
Enable write combining for server works LE rev > 6 per
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0104.3/1007.html
Signed-Off-By: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c index 54999e4c55fd..e1c2042b9b7e 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c @@ -72,17 +72,21 @@ void set_mtrr_ops(struct mtrr_ops * ops) static int have_wrcomb(void) { struct pci_dev *dev; + u8 rev; if ((dev = pci_get_class(PCI_CLASS_BRIDGE_HOST << 8, NULL)) != NULL) { - /* ServerWorks LE chipsets have problems with write-combining + /* ServerWorks LE chipsets < rev 6 have problems with write-combining Don't allow it and leave room for other chipsets to be tagged */ if (dev->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_SERVERWORKS && dev->device == PCI_DEVICE_ID_SERVERWORKS_LE) { - printk(KERN_INFO "mtrr: Serverworks LE detected. Write-combining disabled.\n"); - pci_dev_put(dev); - return 0; + pci_read_config_byte(dev, PCI_CLASS_REVISION, &rev); + if (rev <= 5) { + printk(KERN_INFO "mtrr: Serverworks LE rev < 6 detected. Write-combining disabled.\n"); + pci_dev_put(dev); + return 0; + } } - /* Intel 450NX errata # 23. Non ascending cachline evictions to + /* Intel 450NX errata # 23. Non ascending cacheline evictions to write combining memory may resulting in data corruption */ if (dev->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL && dev->device == PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82451NX) { |
