From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 23:28:51 +0200 Message-ID: <200607072328.51282.ak@suse.de> References: <20060703205238.GA10851@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20060707141843.73fc6188@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Martin Michlmayr , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 341801@bugs.debian.org, asd@suespammers.org, kevin@sysexperts.com Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:13237 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932314AbWGGV3Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 17:29:16 -0400 To: Stephen Hemminger In-Reply-To: <20060707141843.73fc6188@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Friday 07 July 2006 23:18, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:52:38 +0200 > Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > We received the following bug report at http://bugs.debian.org/341801 > > > > | I have a Asus A8V with 4GB of RAM. When I turn on the hardware memory > > | hole in the BIOS, the skge driver prints out this message: > > | skge hardware error detected (status 0xc00) > > | and then does not work. Setting debug=16 doesn't really show anything. Is that a board with VIA chipset? VIA doesn't seem to support PCI accesses with addresses >4GB and they also don't have a working GART IOMMU. It will likely work with iommu=force I've been pondering to force this, but was still waiting for more reports. -Andi