Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:06:53 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU> Subject: Re: MTRR patches ?? On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Richard Gooch wrote: > > 'Cmon, Linus: the XFree86 people might have support for it before the > kernel has it ;-/ My main concern is two-fold: - I really think it should be in the arch/i386/ directory regardless of any other issues.. (and it should probably show up under a similarly machine-dependent name in the /proc filesystem: "/proc/sys/i386/mtrr" or similar). - does it really make sense to make a device out of it? Might it not be equally useful as just a "mtrr" user program that just happens to invoce a kernel module (that unloads immediately after having done its foul deed). With these kinds of concerns it has always kept slipping on my to-do list.. Linus