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From(H. Peter Anvin)
SubjectRe: MTRR patches ??
Date27 Jan 1998 12:27:42 GMT
Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.980126170227.27262B-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
By author:    Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>  - does it really make sense to make a device out of it? Might it not be
>    equally useful as just a "mtrr" user program that just happens to
>    invoce a kernel module (that unloads immediately after having done its
>    foul deed). 
> 

I guess the main problem with that is SMP issues (need to set the
MTRRs on ALL processors) although if you have a kernel module I guess
that doesn't really matter...

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