Re: mtrr question

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:17:09PM +0100, Nick Warne wrote:
 > Hello everybody,
 > 
 > Dumb question here.
 > 
 > I have an Athlon-thunderbird (1.2Ghz) on kernel 2.4.31 with mttr configured 
 > and a nVidia Geforce4.  /proc/mtrr is empty.

That's odd. you should at least have write-back entries for your system memory.
(Usually set up by the system BIOS)

 > Does/is setting up mtrr per the old 1999 Docs/mtrr.txt still relevant 
 > nowadays?  I can't seem to find a definitive answer using Google.

Yes, though the X driver should set them up itself on startup.

		Dave

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