[Fwd: Re: [PATCH] x86: Relegate CONFIG_PAT to EMBEDDED]

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Tue Oct 13 01:18:50 UTC 2009


Tim Gardner wrote:
> Andy, Stefan - Why _is_ it that we don't have PAT enabled? Wasn't it
> originally a prerequisite for KMS back in Jaunty days?
> 
> There are some comments on LKML pointing out that we _should_ have PAT
> enabled, e.g., "[RFC Patch] use MTRR for write combining if PAT is not
> available"
> 
> rtg
> 

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-karmic.git;a=commit;h=a611fa50121f1698bd367b991f66e2268eb10824

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