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From: xcourse97@charter.net
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64]  Re: 2.6.16 and ndiswrapper
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:27:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603252027.01482.xcourse97@charter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603251758.33840.bss03@volumehost.net>

On Saturday 25 March 2006 17:58, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

>
> I had something like this happening on my 4GB system.  With IOMMU off, I'd
> only have access to like 2G of memory.  With IOMMU on, I had various
> results, ranging from kernel panic before initrd is loaded to missing
> memory (small, like maybe the size of my PCI IO window?) to a completely
> working system with devices properly mapped to memory addresses beyond my
> physical RAM.  These various behaviors were controlled, oddly enough, by
> my BIOS settings.
>
> I'm running a Tyan Dual-Opteron Dual-PCIe board... If you've got a similar
> board, I can share my BIOS and kernel settings and maybe you can resolve
> your IOMMU issues.

Just out of curiousity, is it the Tyan S2895?

Bill Tetrault
Madison, WI
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-26  2:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-25 14:35 [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.16 and ndiswrapper Mark Haney
2006-03-25 17:22 ` Beso
2006-03-25 18:46   ` [gentoo-amd64] " Michael Rock
2006-03-25 19:53     ` Mark Haney
2006-03-30 15:44       ` Karol Krizka
2006-03-25 19:52   ` [gentoo-amd64] " Mark Haney
2006-03-25 20:13   ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2006-03-25 20:27     ` Mark Haney
2006-03-25 23:12       ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2006-03-25 20:57 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Karol Krizka
2006-03-25 23:37   ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2006-03-25 23:58     ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-03-26  2:27       ` xcourse97 [this message]
2006-03-26  2:59         ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-03-26 10:34           ` Beso
2006-03-28 11:31             ` Arvid Norlander
2006-03-26 10:34       ` [gentoo-amd64] Re: 2.6.16 and >=4G mem (was ndiswrapper) Duncan
2006-03-29 16:14         ` [gentoo-amd64] Re: 2.6.16 and >=4G mem Duncan
2006-03-29 18:52           ` JimD
2006-03-29 19:41             ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan

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