Re: Patch to reorder functions in the vmlinux to a defined order

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 12:42:23 EST




On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> I was to suggest the same thing originally, but on several boxes I checked
> there weren't any special MTRRs < 1MB, only in the PCI memory hole
> <4GB. I suspect there isn't just any interesting hardware in 640K anymore.

I wasn't talking about the regular MTRR's, but about the magic one: the
"Fixed Range MTRRs" that only map the low 1MB.

I'm pretty sure that they are still used by the BIOS to set up the
640k->1M window.

Linus
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