From: " Paul C. Nendick " <pnendick@highku.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: John Cavan <johncavan@home.com>,
Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:58:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001211155822.A1901@thefunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A3693A8.E0BA83B7@home.com> <E145wtZ-0001pn-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E145wtZ-0001pn-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:23:30PM +0000
Shall I submit this to Matrox as a bug then?
/paul
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) said:
> > Petr, the Matrox card splits the memory between the two video screens
> > when running in a multi-head configuration and "pretends" that it is two
> > distinct cards. Thus, a 32 mb card will register an mtrr for 24mb and
> > for 8mb seperately when in this mode.
>
> That is a driver bug. The intel processors only support MTRR's on certain
> power boundaries/sizes. The fall through is intended.
>
> > to fall through, but is this correct? I've inserted a break at the end
> > of the Intel switch before and have not had problems, but I left it out
>
> Lucky
>
> > in the latest couple of kernels because of all the mtrr work being done,
> > waiting to see if there was resolution.
>
> The Matrox driver needs to register a single 32Mb MTRR
>
--
Paul C. Nendick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-12 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-12 21:43 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors Petr Vandrovec
2000-12-12 21:07 ` John Cavan
2000-12-12 21:23 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-11 21:58 ` Paul C. Nendick [this message]
2000-12-13 2:07 ` David Wragg
2000-12-12 21:36 ` John Cavan
2000-12-13 10:55 ` Jamie Lokier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-12 22:13 Petr Vandrovec
2000-12-13 7:33 ` Boszormenyi Zoltan
2000-12-11 20:00 Paul C. Nendick
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012121511190.28197-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2000-12-11 20:23 ` Paul C. Nendick
2000-12-12 20:19 ` John Cavan
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