Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-08 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Brian F. Feldman wrote ... > On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > Wilko (confused...) > > No, I already committed the change to comment it out in -STABLE. I will > investigate further, but I will definitely not have it in by -RELEASE time. OK, clear. I was just worried it would silent

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-08 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Brian F. Feldman wrote ... > On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > Wilko (confused...) > > No, I already committed the change to comment it out in -STABLE. I will > investigate further, but I will definitely not have it in by -RELEASE time. OK, clear. I was just worried it would silen

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-07 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > Wilko (confused...) No, I already committed the change to comment it out in -STABLE. I will investigate further, but I will definitely not have it in by -RELEASE time. No problem has been noticed before because XFree86 has not supported MTRRs until recentl

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-07 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > Wilko (confused...) No, I already committed the change to comment it out in -STABLE. I will investigate further, but I will definitely not have it in by -RELEASE time. No problem has been noticed before because XFree86 has not supported MTRRs until recent

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-07 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Peter Wemm wrote ... > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > As Brian F. Feldman wrote ... > > > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > > > ... > > > corrupt other memory...) For now, it's unsafe. > > > > Maybe I'm missing the point here, but as a AMD user I'm interested anyway: > > 'should be disabled'

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-07 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Peter Wemm wrote ... > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > As Brian F. Feldman wrote ... > > > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > > > ... > > > corrupt other memory...) For now, it's unsafe. > > > > Maybe I'm missing the point here, but as a AMD user I'm interested anyway: > > 'should be disabled

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-07 Thread Peter Wemm
Wilko Bulte wrote: > As Brian F. Feldman wrote ... > > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > > > > > Mike Smith: > > > |> Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE > > > | > > > |You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the > > > |-stab

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-07 Thread Peter Wemm
Wilko Bulte wrote: > As Brian F. Feldman wrote ... > > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > > > > > Mike Smith: > > > |> Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE > > > | > > > |You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the > > > |-sta

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-06 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Brian F. Feldman wrote ... > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > > > Mike Smith: > > |> Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE > > | > > |You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the > > |-stable branch, but you might be better

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-06 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Brian F. Feldman wrote ... > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > > > Mike Smith: > > |> Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE > > | > > |You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the > > |-stable branch, but you might be better

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > Mike Smith: > |> Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE > | > |You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the > |-stable branch, but you might be better off moving to -stable or to > |3.3-RELEASE

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > Mike Smith: > |> Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE > | > |You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the > |-stable branch, but you might be better off moving to -stable or to > |3.3-RELEAS

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
Mike Smith: |> Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE | |You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the |-stable branch, but you might be better off moving to -stable or to |3.3-RELEASE. Ok, I might try that. From Brian's message, it soun

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
Mike Smith: |> Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE | |You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the |-stable branch, but you might be better off moving to -stable or to |3.3-RELEASE. Ok, I might try that. From Brian's message, it sou

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Mike Smith
> Brian F. Feldman: > |Randall Hopper: > |> Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? > | > |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. > > Great! Thanks. > > Do you know what the status is on the XFree86-FreeBSD MTRR interface > that was b

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Mike Smith
> Brian F. Feldman: > |Randall Hopper: > |> Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? > | > |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. > > Great! Thanks. > > Do you know what the status is on the XFree86-FreeBSD MTRR interface > that was

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
Brian F. Feldman: |Well, from 3.9.16, I get |(==) NV(0): Write-combining range (0xcc00,0x100) :-) | |Nice to know that my work ...errr works. Great! Thanks for the good piece of work. |> Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEAS

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
Brian F. Feldman: |Well, from 3.9.16, I get |(==) NV(0): Write-combining range (0xcc00,0x100):-) | |Nice to know that my work ...errr works. Great! Thanks for the good piece of work. |> Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEAS

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > Brian F. Feldman: > |Randall Hopper: > |> Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? > | > |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. > > Great! Thanks. > > Do you know what the status is on the

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
Brian F. Feldman: |Randall Hopper: |> Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? | |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. Great! Thanks. Do you know what the status is on the XFree86-FreeBSD MTRR interface that was being hammered out (t

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? > > Randall > Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman / "Any sufficiently advanced bug is\ gr...@freebsd.org

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > Brian F. Feldman: > |Randall Hopper: > |> Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? > | > |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. > > Great! Thanks. > > Do you know what the status is on the

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
Brian F. Feldman: |Randall Hopper: |> Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? | |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. Great! Thanks. Do you know what the status is on the XFree86-FreeBSD MTRR interface that was being hammered out (

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? > > Randall > Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman / "Any sufficiently advanced bug is\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-04 Thread Randall Hopper
Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-04 Thread Randall Hopper
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