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

[Daniel J Blueman]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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

Excellent. Is the idea that this will be a karmic beta update in a
couple of days, and we have a get-out-of-jail of disabling it (or
default boot with 'nopat') before the final release is cut?

Or, is this simply too late to make the final release?

Daniel
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Daniel J Blueman