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From: Tim Walberg <twalberg@mindspring.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: Setting up MTRRs for 4096MB RAM
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 13:06:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010809130641.B10425@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108091306550.18150-100000@willow.commerce.uk.net> <9kuils$q67$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <9kuils$q67$1@cesium.transmeta.com> from H. Peter Anvin on 08/09/2001 12:53

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On 08/09/2001 10:53 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>	
>>	Intel MTRRs have to be a multiple of 2, so you'd need 2 MTRRs if you
>>	wanted to cover 3 GB.  0x80000000 is a multiple of 2; 0xC0000000
>>	isn't, and 0xFFFFFFFF definitely isn't, although 0x100000000 is.

Since when? Seems to me bit 0 of 0xC0000000 is 0, therefore it is
a multiple of two. Perhaps you meant "power of 2" (i.e. only one bit
set in the binary representation)?


			tw


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-09 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-09 12:18 Setting up MTRRs for 4096MB RAM Corin Hartland-Swann
2001-08-09 17:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-08-09 18:06   ` Tim Walberg [this message]
2001-08-09 18:50     ` H. Peter Anvin

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