> Alan> On x86 ioremap will give mappings appropriate to the object you
> Alan> map - which means by default it wil give uncached mappings. The
> Alan> PCI hardware will do intelligent things in certain cases such as
> Alan> write merging
>
> Are you thereby saying that ioremap() and ioremap_nocache() are
> identical on the x86?
In certain peculiar cases - no. Think about an ioremap of an object mapped
onto the system bus as RAM.
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