From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
Cc: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: no more MTRRs available ?
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:20:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030129162013.GA1856@codemonkey.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030129170554.08dc6393.skraw@ithnet.com>
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:05:54PM +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca> wrote:
(odd, I'm not getting Mark's mails to l-k).
> > that your bios is stupid, I think. mtrr's handle areas that are
> > powers of two in size (and >= 1M, I think). the problem here is that
> > the bios is trying to represent 4G of write-back ram and a 16M of
> > uncachable IO area (AGP aperture, I'm guessing). the correct way
> > to do this is a single 4G mtrr with an overlapping 16M one.
That does seem to make more sense. Perhaps too much sense.
ISTR there were ordering rules in how you layer MTRRs on top of each
other.
Dave
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-29 15:23 no more MTRRs available ? Stephan von Krawczynski
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301291025240.18828-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2003-01-29 15:45 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301291046490.18828-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2003-01-29 16:05 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-01-29 16:20 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-01-29 17:15 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-01-29 16:14 ` Dave Jones
2003-01-29 16:52 ` Dave Jones
2003-01-29 17:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-29 17:48 ` Dave Jones
2003-01-29 18:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-29 18:12 ` Dave Jones
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