Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:03:18 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.27 mtrr fixes do not work when X starts |
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:53:25PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Yinghai Lu wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:32 AM, Helge Hafting > ><helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no> wrote: > > >>I hope this helps so the extra bootup parameters can be avoided in the > >>release kernel. > > > >that is a little bit hard. > > Well, perhaps not 2.6.27, but I hope I won't need > "mtrr_spare_reg_nr=3" forever. Or is my machine a strange > corner case as far as mtrr's are concerned?
It's just a side effect of having far too much BIOS code in the kernel. These basic MTRRs should be set up by the BIOS and when the kernel starts to think it knows better it ultimatively ends up being far more platform dependent than it should be.
-Andi
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