Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]

Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 4 Apr 2001 10:47:02 +0200


Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I don't know if it applies to this case but one thing I have seen make
> a noticeable difference is whether or not write-combining is enabled.
> If we have only be enabling MTRR's for intel this could do account
> for it.

And on some laptops, even on Intel MTRRs are not enabled for 2.5M
framebuffers.

-- Jamie
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