Is there a way to enable the memory interleaving of modern VIA chipsets
(Apollo Pro-133 in my case) through the Linux kernel or some other software?
>From what I understand it's done through some PCI register tweaking ..
Can it be done with setpci or code is needed ?
any info would be welcomed
thanks
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> Is there a way to enable the memory interleaving of modern VIA chipsets
> (Apollo Pro-133 in my case) through the Linux kernel or some other software?
If your hardware supports it the BIOS should have done so.
> >From what I understand it's done through some PCI register tweaking ..
> Can it be done with setpci or code is needed ?
setpci should be sufficient.
In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
> Is there a way to enable the memory interleaving of modern VIA chipsets
> (Apollo Pro-133 in my case) through the Linux kernel or some other software?
>>From what I understand it's done through some PCI register tweaking ..
> Can it be done with setpci or code is needed ?
> any info would be welcomed
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A Dissabte 08 Desembre 2001 16:02, Pantelis Proios va escriure:
> Is there a way to enable the memory interleaving of modern VIA chipsets
> (Apollo Pro-133 in my case) through the Linux kernel or some other
> software?
>
> From what I understand it's done through some PCI register tweaking ..
> Can it be done with setpci or code is needed ?
>
> any info would be welcomed
i have an ApolloPro 133 and i made that in windoze with a program from somone
called H. Oda. it was very well documented and i found tweaks for 4x
interleaving, active paging control, and read around write for the ApolloPro
i wrote the tweaks in a sheet and modified /proc/bus/pci/00/00.0 with a hex
editor ..... so there is something called setpci to make it easier? will read
the man page later :)
the fact is that i dont remember the exact bits to tweak, i'm going to load
windoze and look which bits i had to tweak again, so will mail them to you
later.
i noticed an interesting increase in memory throughput (with a windoze bench)
can anyone point a way to test mem throughput in linux so we can test if the
tweaks work?
here is the url where these tweaks are:
http://viahardware.com/memtweakguide1.shtm
basically to enable em registers (offsets) 50 & 51 should go to FF hex, regs
64 to 67 should go to 12 hex and reg 68 should go to 43 hex