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| author | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 1999-10-09 00:00:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 1999-10-09 00:00:47 +0000 |
| commit | d6434e1042f3b0a6dfe1b1f615af369486f9b1fa (patch) | |
| tree | e2be02f33984c48ec019c654051d27964e42c441 /Documentation/mtrr.txt | |
| parent | 609d1e803baf519487233b765eb487f9ec227a18 (diff) | |
Merge with 2.3.19.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/mtrr.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mtrr.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/mtrr.txt b/Documentation/mtrr.txt index f047b7a28..941da7e91 100644 --- a/Documentation/mtrr.txt +++ b/Documentation/mtrr.txt @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 128MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x08000000 ( 128MB), size= 64MB: write-back, count=1 reg02: base=0xf8000000 (3968MB), size= 4MB: write-combining, count=1 -This is for videoram at base address 0xf8000000 and size 4 MBytes. To +This is for video RAM at base address 0xf8000000 and size 4 megabytes. To find out your base address, you need to look at the output of your X server, which tells you where the linear framebuffer address is. A typical line that you may get is: @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ know?), the following line will tell you: (--) S3: videoram: 4096k -That's 4 MBytes, which is 0x400000 bytes (in hexadecimal). +That's 4 megabytes, which is 0x400000 bytes (in hexadecimal). A patch is being written for XFree86 which will make this automatic: in other words the X server will manipulate /proc/mtrr using the ioctl() interface, so users won't have to do anything. If you use a |