Re: [RFC] Hacky MTRR support

2010-06-28 Thread Seth Goldberg
Quoting Colin D Bennett, who wrote the following on Mon, 28 Jun 2010: On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:58:34 +0100 Colin Watson wrote: I recently posted ("Subject: [PATCH] Optimise memset on i386" - sorry, I don't seem to have a route to lists.gnu.org at the moment so I can't post an archive link) ab

Re: [RFC] Hacky MTRR support

2010-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:40:21AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:58:34 +0100 > Colin Watson wrote: > > I recently posted ("Subject: [PATCH] Optimise memset on i386" - > > sorry, I don't seem to have a route to lists.gnu.org at the moment so > > I can't post an archive link

Re: [RFC] Hacky MTRR support

2010-06-28 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:58:34 +0100 Colin Watson wrote: > I recently posted ("Subject: [PATCH] Optimise memset on i386" - > sorry, I don't seem to have a route to lists.gnu.org at the moment so > I can't post an archive link) about optimising GRUB's video > initialisation, and hinted that it might

Re: [RFC] Hacky MTRR support

2010-06-28 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 06/25/2010 10:58 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > I recently posted ("Subject: [PATCH] Optimise memset on i386" - sorry, I > don't seem to have a route to lists.gnu.org at the moment so I can't > post an archive link) about optimising GRUB's video initialisation, and > hinted that it might be possible

[RFC] Hacky MTRR support

2010-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
I recently posted ("Subject: [PATCH] Optimise memset on i386" - sorry, I don't seem to have a route to lists.gnu.org at the moment so I can't post an archive link) about optimising GRUB's video initialisation, and hinted that it might be possible to do better by implementing MTRRs as well in order