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| author | Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> | 2008-07-27 02:54:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-28 14:46:49 +0200 |
| commit | 7225e75144b9718cbbe1820d9c011c809d5773fd (patch) | |
| tree | ca922d1fac696a4c41f94366d54846ac8849f49a /Documentation | |
| parent | x86: doc: boot.txt: fix the size of the start_sys field (diff) | |
| download | linux-7225e75144b9718cbbe1820d9c011c809d5773fd.tar.xz linux-7225e75144b9718cbbe1820d9c011c809d5773fd.zip | |
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 <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/00-INDEX | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/00-INDEX | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt (renamed from Documentation/mtrr.txt) | 4 |
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX index 1977fab38656..661b6ccfe180 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 000000000000..dbe3377754af --- /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 index c39ac395970e..cc071dc333c2 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. |