Re: Odd problem with MTRR and ACPI

2002-05-04 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai
-On [20020504 11:45], David Malone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >I did find some AMD errata docs which hinted at a problem involving >4MB pages, MTRR and SMM. (Search for "MTRR SMM athlon ASEG" on >google and you should get the PDF - there are two pages describing >errata involving ASEG and TSEG. Do

Re: Odd problem with MTRR and ACPI

2002-05-04 Thread David Malone
> Heh, finally someone that's actually trying to fix this. 8) ;-) > The "right" thing is going to be to fix the MTRR code to preserve the > extra MTRR bits; I've tried a few times to get some documentation on what > these other bits mean without any luck. The code I added to the MTRR stuff re

Re: Odd problem with MTRR and ACPI

2002-05-03 Thread Michael Smith
Heh, finally someone that's actually trying to fix this. 8) The "right" thing is going to be to fix the MTRR code to preserve the extra MTRR bits; I've tried a few times to get some documentation on what these other bits mean without any luck. You'll need to hide these bits from the layers ab

Odd problem with MTRR and ACPI

2002-04-21 Thread David Malone
I have an ASUS A7A266 motherboard with an Athlon XP processor which seems prone to weirdness. The BIOS seems to set the MTRRs to some undocumented values, which used to prevent X starting. I've now fixed the MTRR code and X works fine. Unfortunately, when X changes the MTRRs then ACPI stops worki