1. 21 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [CELL] driver for DDR2 memory on AXON · dbdf04c4
      Maxim Shchetynin 提交于
      The Axon bridge chip used on new Cell/B.E. based blade servers
      comes with a DDR2 memory controller that can be used to
      attach cheap memory modules, as opposed to the high-speed
      XDR memory that is used by the CPU itself.
      
      Since the memory controller does not participate in the
      cache coherency protocol, we can not use the memory direcly
      for Linux applications, but by providing a block device
      it can be used for swap space, temporary file storage and
      through the use of the direct_access block device operation
      for mapping into user addresses, when it is mounted with
      an appropriate file system.
      Signed-off-by: NMaxim Shchetynin <maxim@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
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