RE: ServerWorks LE MTRR's disabled?

Matt_Domsch@Dell.com
Sat, 13 Oct 2001 09:46:50 -0500


> MTRR's for ServerWorks LE chipsets are disabled in
> arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c. What particular problem does this chipset
> have? I have a revision 5 board which does infact work properly with
> MTRR's. The system is an IBM NetFinity 5600 with 2 PIII's 800's. Is
> this problem dependant on certain board/configurations? If so, might
> there be a better workaround than disabling MTRR entirely?

There was some speculation that LE rev. 5 chips don't have a problem, but no
definitive answer from ServrWorks yet that I'm aware of.

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