Re: MTRR initialization

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu Sep 20 2007 - 08:47:07 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:
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.



Yes. Too bad.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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