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Date:      Wed, 8 Sep 1999 20:42:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        green@FreeBSD.org (Brian F. Feldman)
Cc:        peter@netplex.com.au, aa8vb@ipass.net, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199909081842.UAA03481@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909071918230.46422-100000@janus.syracuse.net> from "Brian F. Feldman" at "Sep 7, 1999  7:25:26 pm"

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As Brian F. Feldman wrote ...
> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
> > Wilko (confused...)
> 
> No, I already committed the change to comment it out in -STABLE. I will
> investigate further, but I will definitely not have it in by -RELEASE time.

OK, clear. I was just worried it would silently sneak itself in 3.3R.

3.3-RC suddenly sporting it sort of worried me..

> No problem has been noticed before because XFree86 has not supported MTRRs
> until recently (snapshots of pre-4.0.) I am going to see what could be
> wrong, and possibly reenable the code at a later date. For now, it's
> considered "dangerous" and you shouldn't mess with it unless you are willing
> to accept the risks that entails.

The first thing I did was comment it out, even before I got this email ;-)

Thanks,
	Wilko
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