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From: Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole (was re: X86_64 + VIA + 4g problems)
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:09:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <456983E2.2060007@highlandsun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <S935347AbWKZLoQ/20061126114416Z+54@vger.kernel.org>

References: <20060703205238.GA10851@deprecation.cyrius.com> 
<p73bqyufo97.fsf@verdi.suse.de>

Just to tie up a loose end... I tested Andi Kleen's new patch for this 
issue on 2.6.18.3. While the patch didn't automatically detect the VIA 
chipset in my Asus A8V Deluxe, it allowed me to manually set a boot 
option that fixes the problem (by disabling DMA to addresses over 4GB). 
The fix is essentially the same as Andi posted here

http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/b1e820ef0212ee5e

although you have to patch pci-dma.c now, not pci-gart.c.

As another note - with my AGP aperture set to only 64MB, 3904MB are 
visible. With the aperture set to 256MB, the full 4096MB are visible.

-- 
  -- Howard Chu
  Chief Architect, Symas Corp.  http://www.symas.com
  Director, Highland Sun        http://highlandsun.com/hyc
  OpenLDAP Core Team            http://www.openldap.org/project/


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