On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Peter Horton wrote: > > I'm quite sure that it's a kernel bug and may cause problems if any > > PIO block device (PIO ide, ide-cs, mtdblock, etc.) are used on CPUs > > which have d-cache aliases (not only MIPS). We need a correct fix ... > > True. A proper fix would flush the relevant page after PIO transfers > into the page cache / swap pages. Unfortunately this would require a > hook in the generic kernel. Why is it unfortunate? A bug in generic code deserves a fix just like any other. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
