On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:07:15AM -0600, ron minnich wrote: > On 18 Oct 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > > EPIA has problem with current CVS (resets when setting var mtrr), > > > and it worked again when I reversed this change. > > > According to the Intel System Programming Manual for PIII, > > > bits 36-63 are reserved, and apparently C3 doesn't like it to be set. > > > > Ok. Then this needs to be fixed. I am wondering how we code > > this cleanly. > > I don't see much of an issue. The code in question sets bits that are > reserved on just about any pentium-compatible CPU, and it should not. So > we don't set those bits.
This code is used by K8 as well. K8 uses these bits to for memory over 64GB. It's not wise to duplicate the whole file into cpu/k8 directory for a tiny constant difference. -- Takeshi _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
