On Gwe, 2005-09-23 at 12:30 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> drivers) also setup an mtrr which frequently stops subsequent processes
> from adding a new one that overlaps an existing write-combining range.

It expects the other users to have the brains to add non-overlapping
ones 8)

> But the *fb drivers do provide a nomtrr option in many cases. (But I'd
> like to remove it from them too :-) or at least default those to off)

Sounds sane. Nvidia posted some patches a while ago that seem to be
getting kicked around a bit again to add support for PAT (per page
attributes) on PII Xeon and higher which will help no end



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