Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 23:48:10 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c Message-ID: <199806080448.XAA01792@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199806080442.VAA02987@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Jun 7, 98 09:42:25 pm"
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> Please leave it off. It is not a good idea for the kernel to enable > this feature . Too many variations on the PC for instance in some > cases it even breaks dma to audio cards -- don't ask me why 8) > Certain vga cards actually report the wrong memory range. > I actually was amazed that I didnt' disable it earlier :-(. I intend to implement a user available API, so the WC enable as is will be gone forever (AFAIK.) A more conservative version might appear, but as it is, it IS DEAD :-). John
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