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documentation: move mtrr.txt to Doc/x86/ subdir

Move mtrr.txt to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory.
Add 00-INDEX to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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Randy Dunlap and committed by
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Documentation/00-INDEX
··· 253 253 - how to execute Mono-based .NET binaries with the help of BINFMT_MISC. 254 254 moxa-smartio 255 255 - file with info on installing/using Moxa multiport serial driver. 256 - mtrr.txt 257 - - how to use PPro Memory Type Range Registers to increase performance. 258 256 mutex-design.txt 259 257 - info on the generic mutex subsystem. 260 258 namespaces/
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Documentation/mtrr.txt Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt
··· 18 18 The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two 19 19 MTRRs. These are supported. The AMD Athlon family provide 8 Intel 20 20 style MTRRs. 21 - 21 + 22 22 The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing write-combining. These 23 23 are supported. 24 24 ··· 87 87 reg01: base=0xfb000000 (4016MB), size= 16MB: write-combining, count=1 88 88 reg02: base=0xfb000000 (4016MB), size= 4kB: uncachable, count=1 89 89 90 - Some cards (especially Voodoo Graphics boards) need this 4 kB area 90 + Some cards (especially Voodoo Graphics boards) need this 4 kB area 91 91 excluded from the beginning of the region because it is used for 92 92 registers. 93 93
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Documentation/x86/00-INDEX
··· 1 + 00-INDEX 2 + - this file 3 + mtrr.txt 4 + - how to use x86 Memory Type Range Registers to increase performance
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arch/x86/Kconfig
··· 1131 1131 You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll 1132 1132 just add about 9 KB to your kernel. 1133 1133 1134 - See <file:Documentation/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1134 + See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information. 1135 1135 1136 1136 config MTRR_SANITIZER 1137 1137 bool