Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | | Subject | Re: MTRR patches ?? | | Date | 27 Jan 1998 12:27:42 GMT |
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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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