Re: [PATCH] - Mapping ACPI tables as CACHED

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Dec 15 2010 - 17:18:57 EST


On 12/15/2010 01:16 PM, Len Brown wrote:
>
> I'll bet we can improve the boot sequence so that
> some of the stuff we do before we have cached mappings
> we can do with cached mappings...
> We checksum all the tables, enumerate the CPUs and the APICs
> all using non-cached mappings....
>

I don't think we have any reason to use uncached mappings, ever...

-hpa
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