Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755776AbYHFOHk (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:07:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755750AbYHFOGt (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:06:49 -0400 Received: from mailbackup.inode.at ([213.229.60.24]:59608 "EHLO mailbackup.inode.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754951AbYHFOGs (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:06:48 -0400 Message-ID: <4899AF8E.20105@sbg.ac.at> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:05:02 +0200 From: Alexander Huemer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.27-rc1 mtrr fixes do not work Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3084 Lines: 65 hi, mtrr is wrong on my machine. the fixes of 2.6.27-rc1 do not seem to work. bios is the newest version, mainboard vendor says it's not their fault. mainboard is tyan i5000pw. please tell me how i can help and cc me on answers, i am not subscribed. here is some data: seaburg ~ # grep -E "(^\(WW\)|^\(EE\)|^\(NI\)|^\(??\))" /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) VESA(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd8000000,0x2000000) seaburg ~ # dmesg|grep mtrr Command line: root=/dev/sda1 video=uvesafb:1280x1024-24@97,mtrr:3,ywrap mtrr_gran_size=64m mtrr_chunk_size=1024m Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 video=uvesafb:1280x1024-24@97,mtrr:3,ywrap mtrr_gran_size=64m mtrr_chunk_size=1024m mtrr: type mismatch for d8000000,800000 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for d8000000,400000 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for d8000000,200000 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for d8000000,100000 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for d8000000,80000 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for d8000000,40000 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for d8000000,20000 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for d8000000,10000 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for d8000000,8000 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for d8000000,4000 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for d8000000,2000 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for d8000000,1000 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for d8000000,2000000 old: write-back new: write-combining seaburg ~ # cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=198656MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x80000000 (2048MB), size=197632MB: write-back, count=1 reg02: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=197632MB: write-back, count=1 seaburg ~ # grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 4041308 kB seaburg ~ # lspci -v | grep -A10 VGA 20:05.0 VGA compatible controller: XGI Technology Inc. (eXtreme Graphics Innovation) Volari Z7 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: XGI Technology Inc. (eXtreme Graphics Innovation) Volari Z7 Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel BIST result: 00 Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Memory at dc300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] I/O ports at 3000 [size=128] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 seaburg ~ # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep MTRR CONFIG_MTRR=y CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER=y CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT=1 CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER_SPARE_REG_NR_DEFAULT=1 seaburg ~ # uname -a Linux seaburg 2.6.27-rc1-blackbit #3 SMP Wed Aug 6 00:34:51 CEST 2008 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux seaburg ~ # -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/