Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:09:06 -0800 | From | Howard Chu <> | Subject | re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole (was re: X86_64 + VIA + 4g problems) |
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References: <20060703205238.GA10851@deprecation.cyrius.com> <p73bqyufo97.fsf@verdi.suse.de>
Just to tie up a loose end... I tested Andi Kleen's new patch for this issue on 2.6.18.3. While the patch didn't automatically detect the VIA chipset in my Asus A8V Deluxe, it allowed me to manually set a boot option that fixes the problem (by disabling DMA to addresses over 4GB). The fix is essentially the same as Andi posted here
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/b1e820ef0212ee5e
although you have to patch pci-dma.c now, not pci-gart.c.
As another note - with my AGP aperture set to only 64MB, 3904MB are visible. With the aperture set to 256MB, the full 4096MB are visible.
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