Re: 2.2.18pre25, S3, AMD K6-2, and MTRR....

From: Steven Walter (srwalter@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Dec 10 2000 - 13:34:38 EST

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On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:20:31PM +0000, David Wragg wrote:
> If I understood why the MTRR driver was doing something on the K6-2,
> then model-specific differences might make some sense. But currently,
> I don't see why there would be any difference between "MTRR disabled"
> and "MTRR enabled, but not used".

If I'm not mistaken, X /does/ touch the MTRR's, which would explain why
it is X that crashes.

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