Re: mtrr and stepping=2 K7's

By "early" I meant the cpu and mainboard were bought as soon as K7's showed up in the OEM channel. I'm beginning to suspect it my be a mainboard problem, though I'm not sure how that would tie in with mtrr. Have to see if I can scrounge up a different motherboard, or see if there is a bios upgra

mtrr and stepping=2 K7's

Are there any known issues with MTRR on early K7's? Using XFree86 4.0.x on an early 550 Mhz K7 (equipped with 256Megs of sdram) causes this machine to lock up, unless I comment out the K7 mtrr enabling stuff in i686_mem.c. This happens with any VGA card that I drop in the box, (PCI bus voodoo4,

figuring out were an spl lock isn't being freed

I'm playing with a third party kernel module under 4.0. Occasionally the box locks up during extended access to the device it supports, though the box will respond to pings and other hardware driven interupts, but will not let loggins happen, and open telnet sessions from remote hosts freeze. I'

Compaq Integrated Raid Array

I have some very short term access to a Compaq 8500. The integrated raid array is supported under linux via it's smart array driver. I have a feeling that it should just work with freesd's driver, but "scanpci" shows it using a a vendor id of 0x1000 and a device id of 0x0010. Where in a 4.0 ker