From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 19 3:13:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A517514C7F for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 03:13:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 19 Jul 1999 11:12:29 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:12:29 +0100 From: David Malone To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about MTRR boot message Message-ID: <19990719111229.A5209@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <199907190325.FAA17479@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199907190325.FAA17479@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>; from Oliver Fromme on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 05:25:32AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 05:25:32AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > There's the following message in my dmesg: > > "Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled, default memory type is uncacheable" > > I seriously hope that it does not mean that my memory > is not chached... does it? I haven't found any manual > pages or other docs about it. You'd know all about it if it had disabled the caching of RAM. We had a SMP motherboard which didn't configure MTRR stuff for the second processor, and the FreeBSD workaround was broken at the time. The 450MHz PII ran about 200 times slower than usual! David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message