From: Randy Dunlap Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:54:22 +0000 (-0700) Subject: documentation: move mtrr.txt to Doc/x86/ subdir X-Git-Tag: v2.6.28-rc1~734^2^8~3 X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7225e75144b9718cbbe1820d9c011c809d5773fd;p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6 documentation: move mtrr.txt to Doc/x86/ subdir Move mtrr.txt to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory. Add 00-INDEX to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX index 1977fab..661b6cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX @@ -253,8 +253,6 @@ mono.txt - how to execute Mono-based .NET binaries with the help of BINFMT_MISC. moxa-smartio - file with info on installing/using Moxa multiport serial driver. -mtrr.txt - - how to use PPro Memory Type Range Registers to increase performance. mutex-design.txt - info on the generic mutex subsystem. namespaces/ diff --git a/Documentation/x86/00-INDEX b/Documentation/x86/00-INDEX new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dbe3377 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/00-INDEX @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +00-INDEX + - this file +mtrr.txt + - how to use x86 Memory Type Range Registers to increase performance diff --git a/Documentation/mtrr.txt b/Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt similarity index 99% rename from Documentation/mtrr.txt rename to Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt index c39ac39..cc071dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/mtrr.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Richard Gooch The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two MTRRs. These are supported. The AMD Athlon family provide 8 Intel style MTRRs. - + The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing write-combining. These are supported. @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 64MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0xfb000000 (4016MB), size= 16MB: write-combining, count=1 reg02: base=0xfb000000 (4016MB), size= 4kB: uncachable, count=1 -Some cards (especially Voodoo Graphics boards) need this 4 kB area +Some cards (especially Voodoo Graphics boards) need this 4 kB area excluded from the beginning of the region because it is used for registers. diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 03980cb..06f9354 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -1131,7 +1131,7 @@ config MTRR You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll just add about 9 KB to your kernel. - See for more information. + See for more information. config MTRR_SANITIZER bool