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| author | Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> | 2008-07-26 17:54:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-28 14:46:49 +0200 |
| commit | 7225e75144b9718cbbe1820d9c011c809d5773fd (patch) | |
| tree | ca922d1fac696a4c41f94366d54846ac8849f49a | |
| parent | a021e5124a6c57325ffb02a60cd1d5f40342f8aa (diff) | |
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>
| -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 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 |
4 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 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. diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 03980cb04291..06f935469d0b 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 <file:Documentation/mtrr.txt> for more information. + See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. config MTRR_SANITIZER bool |