[Fwd: Re: [PATCH] x86: Relegate CONFIG_PAT to EMBEDDED]

[Tim Gardner]

Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com> wrote:
>> Tim Gardner wrote:
>>> Andy, Stefan - Why _is_ it that we don't have PAT enabled? Wasn't it
>>> originally a prerequisite for KMS back in Jaunty days?
>>>
>>> There are some comments on LKML pointing out that we _should_ have PAT
>>> enabled, e.g., "[RFC Patch] use MTRR for write combining if PAT is not
>>> available"
>>>
>>> rtg
>>>
>> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-karmic.git;a=commit;h=a611fa50121f1698bd367b991f66e2268eb10824
> 
> Excellent. Is the idea that this will be a karmic beta update in a
> couple of days, and we have a get-out-of-jail of disabling it (or
> default boot with 'nopat') before the final release is cut?
> 
> Or, is this simply too late to make the final release?
> 
> Daniel

Kernel freeze is Thursday. With the addition of stable and other
miscellaneous patches, today's upload is going to be the last one
(unless some OMG kitten killer gets in my face).

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com