On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 01:55:16PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Steve Gehlbach steve@nexpath.com writes:
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
``Write Protect'' in the mtrrs does not mean write protected. It is a strange
messed up form of write-through. In particular it dumps the cache on writes it does not forbid writes. Unless you know of a situation where write protect is more appropriate please use write-through. It is less confusing, and since no one is writing to that area anyway it gives the exact same result, reads are cached. Eric
So why did you use WP cache for "XIP" area? Using same type for both area makes sense.