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From: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
To: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [resend] intel_agp: Don't oops with zero stolen memory
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 23:54:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007022354.07194.linux@rainbow-software.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zky9iou7.fsf@pollan.anholt.net>

On Friday 02 July 2010 22:57:36 Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 21:59:20 +0200, Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> 
wrote:
> > On Friday 02 July 2010 00:44:39 Eric Anholt wrote:
> > > On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:13:52 +0200, Ondrej Zary
> > > <linux@rainbow-software.org>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > When "onboard video memory" is set do "disabled" in BIOS on Asus
> > > > P4P800-VM board (i865G), kernel oopses with memory corruption:
> > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28430
> > > >
> > > > Fix that by cleanly aborting the initialization.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
> > >
> > > I haven't seen a system with that option before. Is the integrated
> > > graphics still supposed to work at that point, or is it "graphics is
> > > disabled."?  What do other OSes do here?
> >
> > Testing it right now with Windows XP. Integrated graphics works as
> > secondary only when the "onboard video memory" is set to "disabled"! If
> > anything other is set (e.g. 1MB or 32MB), the driver does not load (code
> > 10).
>
> OK, I was thinking in that case that we should fix the AGP driver's math
> so that it correctly set up a chip with no stolen memory allocation.  On
> the other hand, I don't think we know what the correct math is, so maybe
> we should just go ahead with disabling AGP in that case.

Someone from Intel should know how to fix this properly.

-- 
Ondrej Zary

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-02 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-16  8:13 [PATCH] [resend] intel_agp: Don't oops with zero stolen memory Ondrej Zary
2010-07-01 22:44 ` Eric Anholt
2010-07-02 19:59   ` Ondrej Zary
2010-07-02 20:57     ` Eric Anholt
2010-07-02 21:54       ` Ondrej Zary [this message]
2010-07-05 16:54 ` Eric Anholt

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