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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:08:50 -0700
From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: pat cpu feature bit setting for known cpus
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:06 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>  >>
>  >>  By the way, I want to clarify: I didn't mean it was *intended* as
>  >>  vendor-lockin, just that it's an undesirable effect of this.
>  >
>  > if the PAT works, we may need to trim the memory according to MTRR, right?
>  >
>
>  That doesn't seem like it's specific to PAT?

could page table to  set WRBACK the range that is not covered by MTRR in e820..

YH
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