From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately?
Date: 01 Jun 2007 23:14:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73k5unbcnq.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706011210.15808.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> writes:
> (or we get proper PAT support, which I think would make this problem
> go away as well).
No it won't. If the basic MTRRs for memory are wrong just having PAT support
in drivers (which already exist in a limited form already, just for
UC only) won't change anything.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-01 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-01 18:14 Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately? Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 19:10 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-01 19:17 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 19:19 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 19:21 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-01 21:14 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-06-01 20:19 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 20:24 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 20:26 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 21:07 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-01 21:19 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 21:35 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-01 21:41 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-02 1:05 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-06-02 1:15 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-02 8:43 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-02 9:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-02 20:11 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-03 9:15 ` Matt Keenan
2007-06-04 15:40 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-04 15:48 ` Ray Lee
2007-06-04 15:49 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-04 16:01 ` Ray Lee
2007-06-04 15:54 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-04 18:24 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-04 18:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-04 18:22 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-04 19:08 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-04 19:17 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-04 19:18 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-04 21:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-05 0:59 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-06-05 1:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-05 9:46 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-05 13:18 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-05 17:20 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-07 8:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-04 19:23 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-04 19:24 ` Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately? II Andi Kleen
2007-06-05 0:54 ` Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately? Yinghai Lu
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