Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932354AbWBWRok (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:44:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932356AbWBWRok (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:44:40 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:720 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932354AbWBWRoj (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:44:39 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:44:30 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andi Kleen cc: Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: Patch to reorder functions in the vmlinux to a defined order In-Reply-To: <200602231820.50384.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <1140700758.4672.51.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1140713001.4672.73.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <200602231820.50384.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 726 Lines: 20 On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > > I was to suggest the same thing originally, but on several boxes I checked > there weren't any special MTRRs < 1MB, only in the PCI memory hole > <4GB. I suspect there isn't just any interesting hardware in 640K anymore. I wasn't talking about the regular MTRR's, but about the magic one: the "Fixed Range MTRRs" that only map the low 1MB. I'm pretty sure that they are still used by the BIOS to set up the 640k->1M window. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/