On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote:

> > It occurs to me that we should probably change XAA to flush CPU caches
> > just after calling the driver's Sync() function, and change mibank to do
> > the same after telling the driver to switch banks.

>    That is a hardware issue and something the driver's Sync() function
> should be doing, not core code.  The "nv" driver already does that.

The driver has no business dealing with architecture concerns.  When it
does/must, it's an indication the common layer, or common module, is not
doing its job.

Marc.

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