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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	kraxel@suse.de, jsimmons@infradead.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use MTRRs by default for vesafb on x86-64
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 23:52:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030518225204.GA21068@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030518223446.GA8591@mail.jlokier.co.uk>

On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 11:34:46PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:

 > If that's the problem, a test which writes a data pattern to a
 > significant chunk of video RAM in sequence, as fast as possible, and
 > then reads it would be practically guaranteed to spot this and
 > indicate that MTRRs aren't suitable for this card in this mode.

Or you could just add the PCI ID to the quirks list..

		Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-18 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-15 14:56 [PATCH] Use MTRRs by default for vesafb on x86-64 Andi Kleen
2003-05-15 15:16 ` Dave Jones
2003-05-15 15:20   ` Andi Kleen
2003-05-15 15:25     ` Dave Jones
2003-05-16 20:51   ` Alan Cox
2003-05-18  5:39     ` Andi Kleen
2003-05-18 16:11       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-05-18 20:40         ` Alan Cox
2003-05-18 22:34           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-05-18 22:52             ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-05-18 23:33               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-05-19  0:02                 ` Dave Jones
2003-05-19  0:28                   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-05-19  1:24                     ` Dave Jones
2003-05-16 22:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-05-19 10:37   ` Andi Kleen
2003-05-19 12:26     ` Eric W. Biederman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-19  9:16 Etienne Lorrain

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