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- Lines: 18
- Date:
Wed Aug 25 17:29:45 1999
- Orig file:
v2.2.11/linux/Documentation/mtrr.txt
- Orig date:
Mon May 10 10:32:45 1999
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.2.11/linux/Documentation/mtrr.txt linux/Documentation/mtrr.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
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:
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
(--) 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
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TCL-scripts by Sam Shen (who was at: slshen@lbl.gov)