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David Malone 93f39ea88a Some BIOSs are using MTRR values that are only documented under NDA 
to control the mapping of things like the ACPI and APM into memory.

The problem is that starting X changes these values, so if something
was using the bits of BIOS mapped into memory (say ACPI or APM),
then next time they access this memory the machine would hang.

This patch refuse to change MTRR values it doesn't understand,
unless a new "force" option is given. This means X doesn't change
them by accident but someone can override that if they really want
to.

PR:		28418
Tested by:	Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>,
		David Bushong <david@bushong.net>,
		Santos <casd@myrealbox.com>
MFC after:	1 week
2002-09-15 15:07:55 +00:00
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Makefile Perform a major cleanup of the usr.sbin Makefiles. 2001-07-20 06:20:32 +00:00
memcontrol.8 Some BIOSs are using MTRR values that are only documented under NDA 2002-09-15 15:07:55 +00:00
memcontrol.c Some BIOSs are using MTRR values that are only documented under NDA 2002-09-15 15:07:55 +00:00