Re: [PATCH] x86: pat cpu feature bit setting for known cpus

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Tue Mar 25 2008 - 19:09:00 EST


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:06 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >>
> >> By the way, I want to clarify: I didn't mean it was *intended* as
> >> vendor-lockin, just that it's an undesirable effect of this.
> >
> > if the PAT works, we may need to trim the memory according to MTRR, right?
> >
>
> That doesn't seem like it's specific to PAT?

could page table to set WRBACK the range that is not covered by MTRR in e820..

YH
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