re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole (was re: X86_64 + VIA + 4g problems)

re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole (was re: X86_64 + VIA + 4g problems)

[Howard Chu]

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.

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