Subject: Re: Making MTRR support non-optional
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/14/2007 17:26:30
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 04:03:06PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> Hi all,
> can we just remove the MTRR option similiar to the various CPU class
> options? It is a small amount of code and detected at runtime anyway.

It may cause problems for Xen; I'm not sure Xen2 allows control on
the mtrr. I'm almost sure xeni386 won't compile with options MTRR
right now. But I think this option is the default on amd64, so it should
be easily fixed.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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