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SubjectRe: MTRR initialization
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On Thursday, September 20, 2007, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:50:23 pm Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com> writes:
> > > To do this in a nicer way (and be less vulnerable to similar BIOS
> > > funkiness) the kernel really needs full PAT support. That should
> > > allow WC over WB and WC over UC mappings to occur, at least if
> > > I'm remembering the docs right...
> >
> > PAT only really helps for device driver performance optimizations.
> > But if the basic WB MTRRs are wrong PAT cannot really salvage it.
>
> Look at the original bug report. There's a bug WB region so any
^^^
err big
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