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Commit d7a465b4 authored by Antonino A. Daplas's avatar Antonino A. Daplas Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] vesafb: Document mtrr boot option usage


Document mtrr boot option usage to Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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......@@ -144,7 +144,21 @@ vgapal Use the standard vga registers for palette changes.
This is the default.
pmipal Use the protected mode interface for palette changes.
mtrr setup memory type range registers for the vesafb framebuffer.
mtrr:n setup memory type range registers for the vesafb framebuffer
where n:
0 - disabled (equivalent to nomtrr)
1 - uncachable
2 - write-back
3 - write-combining (default)
4 - write-through
If you see the following in dmesg, choose the type that matches the
old one. In this example, use "mtrr:2".
...
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,8000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
...
nomtrr disable mtrr
vremap:n
remap 'n' MiB of video RAM. If 0 or not specified, remap memory
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