linux-kernel - Re: Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately?

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Message-ID: <p73k5unbcnq.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Date:	01 Jun 2007 23:14:17 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Cc:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately?

Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> writes:

> (or we get proper PAT support, which I think would make this problem 
> go away as well).

No it won't. If the basic MTRRs for memory are wrong just having PAT support
in drivers (which already exist in a limited form already, just for
UC only) won't change anything.

-Andi
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