Re: [RFC Patch] use MTRR for write combining if PAT is not available

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Sat Oct 10 2009 - 13:52:00 EST



> > 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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