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SubjectRe: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> > 32bit writes on a bus with a word size of 64 or more bits. By the way
> > does anyone know who didn't implement MTRR's or the equivalent on
> > alpha so we can shoot them?
>
> People never get shot in Open Source projects. Not when they write buggy code,
> not when they don't implement some features.

Was DEC Alpha an Open Source project? ;-)

Memory barriers are more RISC-styled and more flexible anyway (e.g. you
can't run out of them ;-) ), though they require a greater care when
writing code. MTRRs are the Intel style of complicating designs. Still
they are probably a reasonable solution to preserve DOS compatibility.

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