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authorRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>2008-07-26 17:54:22 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-28 14:46:49 +0200
commit7225e75144b9718cbbe1820d9c011c809d5773fd (patch)
treeca922d1fac696a4c41f94366d54846ac8849f49a /Documentation
parenta021e5124a6c57325ffb02a60cd1d5f40342f8aa (diff)
documentation: move mtrr.txt to Doc/x86/ subdir
Move mtrr.txt to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory. Add 00-INDEX to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/00-INDEX2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/00-INDEX4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt (renamed from Documentation/mtrr.txt)4
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX
index 1977fab3865..661b6ccfe18 100644
--- a/Documentation/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX
@@ -253,8 +253,6 @@ mono.txt
- how to execute Mono-based .NET binaries with the help of BINFMT_MISC.
moxa-smartio
- file with info on installing/using Moxa multiport serial driver.
-mtrr.txt
- - how to use PPro Memory Type Range Registers to increase performance.
mutex-design.txt
- info on the generic mutex subsystem.
namespaces/
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/00-INDEX b/Documentation/x86/00-INDEX
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dbe3377754a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/x86/00-INDEX
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+00-INDEX
+ - this file
+mtrr.txt
+ - how to use x86 Memory Type Range Registers to increase performance
diff --git a/Documentation/mtrr.txt b/Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt
index c39ac395970..cc071dc333c 100644
--- a/Documentation/mtrr.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Richard Gooch
The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two
MTRRs. These are supported. The AMD Athlon family provide 8 Intel
style MTRRs.
-
+
The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing write-combining. These
are supported.
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 64MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0xfb000000 (4016MB), size= 16MB: write-combining, count=1
reg02: base=0xfb000000 (4016MB), size= 4kB: uncachable, count=1
-Some cards (especially Voodoo Graphics boards) need this 4 kB area
+Some cards (especially Voodoo Graphics boards) need this 4 kB area
excluded from the beginning of the region because it is used for
registers.