Re: [PATCH] restore sysenter MSRs at resume

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 06:13:34 EST


On Llu, 2003-05-12 at 01:07, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On 11 May 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > Some laptops also lose all the AGP settings in the chipset.
>
> Well, that's definitely a driver issue, and should be handled that way. I
> suspect even the MTRR's should be handled as a driver, since unlike things
> like the SYSENTER things, it really _is_ a driver already and is
> conditional on kernel configuration etc.

True, although mtrr is kind of special because bad things happen in some
cases if they dont match across CPU's or with I/O device mappings.

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