Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764115AbXFAURw (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:17:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762382AbXFAURq (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:17:46 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:44798 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762312AbXFAURp (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:17:45 -0400 To: Jesse Barnes Cc: Justin Piszcz , 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? References: <200706011210.15808.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> From: Andi Kleen Date: 01 Jun 2007 23:14:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200706011210.15808.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 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: 570 Lines: 10 Jesse Barnes 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 - 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/