On 27 Mar 2023, at 13:13, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
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> From: Arnd Bergmann
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> No other architecture intentionally writes back dirty cache lines into
> a buffer that a device has just finished writing into. If the cache is
> clean, this has no effect at all, but if a cacheline in the buffer has
> a
On 13 Jan 2023, at 21:03, Luck, Tony wrote:
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>> For what it's worth, Debian and Gentoo both have ia64 ports with active
>> users (6.1 looks like it currently fails to build in Debian due to a
>> minor packaging issue, but various versions of 6.0 were built and
>> published, and one of those is r
On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 08:55:41AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 at 01:31, Luck, Tony wrote:
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> > > Yeah, if it was ia64-only, it's a non-issue these days. It's dead and
> > > in pure maintenance mode from a kernel perspective (if even that).
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> > There's not much "simul
