From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jv6Qz-00038f-5V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 May 2008 07:57:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC60AE0464; Sun, 11 May 2008 07:57:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.168]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 904BEE0464 for ; Sun, 11 May 2008 07:57:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 23so1894644wfg.10 for ; Sun, 11 May 2008 00:57:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=b97T7akM0uLZErl/tqud0k50twBMY3/awbp+aUolrhg=; b=bn0vA6hUiI/4AdmAf1lyVmRZlYmDmUdQM/r9VXozUWqIVuDNNrP3x2CQNfMznJ33bAvFh3ocX5e0Uze97tl8rDk5McvnJkWwFYhbYa1aeWCY3n6PhnbhPxMqJdmTM80dbFinJRyVKF0cysKgVMcrZGpVOcFu31+Jjb70yizY3og= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=v8Q0JkDTUPJFU6/XCYuVHsVnoAumVjHV9qlmPGZqYAi5NIT3D50wUiDaBSeMMKXGtDDc690/H41GGdey7d+jLHwD1ERYMU+UFb8CGP0GElQ+JkQJ2us3BeS1QuCY/2XCvWIs2YlmT4Em9w+91axrNLMUH3JTk53QUABk5ytG3ug= Received: by 10.142.127.10 with SMTP id z10mr2734472wfc.122.1210492647087; Sun, 11 May 2008 00:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.78.11 with HTTP; Sun, 11 May 2008 00:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <350fc7cf0805110057h228ca2ddja777b60cc8658d77@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 03:57:27 -0400 From: "Andrey Falko" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] MTRR and PAT In-Reply-To: <4826A520.1030007@coolmail.se> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4826A520.1030007@coolmail.se> X-Archives-Salt: 053b7a3e-c5d6-4a0a-80f1-1424c3ccee45 X-Archives-Hash: 803bf71daeafbd80b7d061f6b2bf094c On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 3:49 AM, pk wrote: > Hi, > > (Sorry if this is off-topic but I really don't know where to turn to...) > > Anyone with experience/knowledge about MTRR/PAT and who can tell me where to > find information about these things so that I might see if there's a problem > or not? I've tried google but in this case they're not my friend... :-( > > The MTRR of one of my machines look like this: > reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 > reg01: base=0x80000000 (2048MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 > reg02: base=0xbff00000 (3071MB), size= 1MB: uncachable, count=1 > reg03: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 > > The gfx card is a (pcie) Radeon HD3850 and the base address for the > framebuffer is 0xd0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]. It also has > (what I believe is) registers at 0xf1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) > [size=64K]. > > One of my other machines get's warnings about > > All the relevant info that comes up when I use google relates to AGP but I > use PCIE, so is it still relevant? Also, are there other devices besides the > graphics card that would benefit from having a correct MTRR setting? > > TIA, > > Peter K What kernel version are you using? How are you compiling your kernel (i.e. with genkernel or manually)? If you are manually compiling your kernel, can you send us your .config file? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list