RE: page allocation/attributes question (i386/x86_64 specific)

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 11:56 -0500, Stuart_Hayes@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > I only fixed it for x86-64 correct. Does it work for you on x86-64?
> > 
> > If yes then the changes could be brought over.
> > 
> > What do you all need is for anyways?
> > 
> > -Andi
> 
> We need this because the NVidia driver uses change_page_attr() to make
> pages non-cachable, which is causing systems to spontaneously reboot
> when it gets a page that's in the first 8MB of memory.
> 

that's not a linux problem since there isn't really a linux driver that
does this ;)


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