Re: MTRR initialization

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Sep 20 2007 - 08:10:27 EST


> Is there any reason not to set the MTRRs to define the entire memory as
> write back, and use PAT exclusively for setting cacheability?

That risks breaking SMM or BIOS code.

-Andi
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