From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Schlichter <thomas.schlichter@web.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch] use MTRR for write combining if PAT is not available
References: <200910100322.36857.thomas.schlichter@web.de>
	<4AD00C89.3000503@linux.intel.com>
	<200910101031.15620.thomas.schlichter@web.de>
	<4AD0ABFF.1020209@linux.intel.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:50:29 -0700
In-Reply-To: <4AD0ABFF.1020209@linux.intel.com> (Arjan van de Ven's message of
	"Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:45:03 -0700")
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 > > Hmm, my CPU (VIA Nano) seems to support PAT, but Ubuntu disables this
 > > feature in its kernel config. I'm using 9.04, but even 9.10 will have PAT
 > > disabled:
 > 
 > that sounds like a bad idea. But to each distro their own I suppose.

Seems that Ubuntu has caught this issue, and it will probably be
resolved: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/446480

 - R.
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