Re: [PATCH] X86: fix typo PAT to X86_PAT
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jan 18 2008 - 16:04:19 EST
* Pallipadi, Venkatesh <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ingo, can you remove this PAT MTRR exclusion.
yeah, already did that.
> Actually, this exclusion will not work at all with the current code.
> Infact it should be PAT selects MTRR, for the current code. As
> pat_init() is called during mtrr init as the rules for how to change
> PAT and how to change MTRR are same. Further, MTRR is always required
> on SMP, as we read the MTRR setting from boot CPU and set it on Aps at
> boot time. We should only remove the /proc/mtrr write permissions with
> CONFIG_PAT. We need to deprecate it for a while before that...
ok.
Ingo
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