On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Jose Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto wrote:
> Mar 9 09:35:45 abissnet kernel: mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR
> settings
> Mar 9 09:35:45 abissnet kernel: mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all
> CPUs
>
> I have these two lines in the boot secuence like you. I'm confused,
> i don't know if I have a bios problem or not. I have read the
> documentation in the kernel 2.2.12 (RedHat 6.1) about MTRR and
> i'm not very sure of its importance. Is a serious problem or only a
> performance
> penalty in the data transference from main memory to video memory ?
My understanding (I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong) is that
this is nothing at all to worry about. It is simply a warning, one that
can be ignored because the kernel has taken care of everything.
Essentially, your BIOS initialised one CPU (or MTRR, not sure...) but did
not properly initialise the second. So Linux initialised the second one.
This is as important as a message saying "Adding swap". Your system
should work perfectly fine and should run at full speed.
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