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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 01:31:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
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Subject: Re: MTRR driver model support broken on SMP.
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On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Nigel Cunningham wrote:

> > Looking at this i'm really curious as to whether we need to bother at all,
> > can you remove the mtrr restore code and then compare /proc/mtrr before
> > and after suspending.
>
> I haven't had problems but do remember 2.4 users who had trouble with X
> before code to save and restore mtrrs was added.

Ahh yes, X11 will create an additional entry on startup whilst the
boot MTRR settings don't have it.