Roman Shterenzon had the audacity to say:
> What models/revisions seem to be broken?
> I *think* that K6-2 mtrr works.
>
That's the impression I was under. I have gotten no information from AMD to say
that the MTRRs on their K6-2 line don't work. The only things I know of is that
the first-gen chips didn't have them, and the code checks for that. Are you sure
that it isn't some interpretation problem with the tech docs?
--cokane
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > > Well, I know that they are different form those on the PII/III line,
> > > and that there are only two. I think that they are implemented in some
> > > windows drivers and programs. Maybe whoever is in charge of it could
> > > contact me, I have some AMD tech docs and maybe I could take a crack at
> > > it.
> >
> > I'm not sure I follow you. We have implemented support for the K6 memory
> > range registers, and having done so, discovered that they don't behave
> > like they should. Thus, support was disabled for these CPUs. There's
> > nothing more to do, as far as I'm aware - the hardware itself is broken.
> >
> > > --cokane
> > >
> > > Mike Smith had the audacity to say:
> > > > > I know that the k6 mtrr code is broken. Who is actively working on
> > > > > this? I have been messing with it and know that it screws up the
> > > > > framebuffer writes in xfree86 4.0. It prevents the writes of certain
> > > > > parts of the pixel values.
> > > >
> > > > Evidence suggests that the problem is actually in the K6 itself.
> > > >
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