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SubjectRe: [patch] vesafb fix
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 07:06:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> Not all the MTRR using chips use PAT - but its certainly a start.
Sure.

> The
> base algorithm for allocating MTRRs as efficiently as sanely possible
> is already in the kernel btw - or pretty close to it - its used by
> the Winchip code to cover RAM with out of order store.

Does that support wierdo cases like Jamie's though?
I can't see how you can cover an not-a-powerof2 size area of memory
without doing too little/too much. The winchip code was written with
RAM in mind, which is always a power of 2 unless you boot with
mem=fooMB

Dave

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