Re: Serverworks LE and MTRR write-combining question

2005-04-15 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 19:34 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > Here's the patch from that thread against 2.6.12-rc2. It also fixes an > unrelated typo in nearby code. Obviously untested, as I don't have the > hardware ;-) > > Summary: Enable write combining for server works LE rev > 6 per > http://www.u

Re: Serverworks LE and MTRR write-combining question

2005-04-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 19:00 -0400, Mike Russo wrote:Just > wondering if anyone had any updates on this issue, and if not, hey, > that's why the source is there -- for me to screw around with. ;) > I think it didn't go in just because no one bothered to repost the patch with the comment fixed, a

Serverworks LE and MTRR write-combining question

2005-04-14 Thread Mike Russo
Hello, I'd like to begin by humbly thanking everyone who works on the kernel for their time and patience and energy. Without you my company would have had to spend a lot more on software and gotten nowhere near as much value in return! I have a question regarding my motherboard's serverworks LE

RE: ServerWorks LE and MTRR

2001-04-30 Thread Mark_Rusk
Message- From: Dave Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 8:06 PM To: Steffen Persvold Cc: lkml; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ServerWorks LE and MTRR On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steffen Persvold wrote: > ... > Therefore please consider my small patch to allow the > goo

Re: ServerWorks LE and MTRR

2001-04-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Steffen Persvold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steffen Persvold wrote: > > > > > I've learned it the hard way, I have two types : Compaq DL360 (rev 5) and a > > > Tyan S2510 (rev 6). On the compaq machine I constantly get data corruption > on >

Re: ServerWorks LE and MTRR

2001-04-29 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steffen Persvold wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steffen Persvold wrote: > > > > > I've learned it the hard way, I have two types : Compaq DL360 (rev 5) and a > > > Tyan S2510 (rev 6). On the compaq machine I constantly get data corruption on > >

Re: ServerWorks LE and MTRR

2001-04-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steffen Persvold wrote: > ... > Therefore please consider my small patch to allow the > good ones to be able to use write-combining. I have several rev 06 and they are > working fine with this patch. > ... ObPedant: Can you make a note of this in the comment a few lines abo

Re: ServerWorks LE and MTRR

2001-04-29 Thread Steffen Persvold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steffen Persvold wrote: > > > I've learned it the hard way, I have two types : Compaq DL360 (rev 5) and a > > Tyan S2510 (rev 6). On the compaq machine I constantly get data corruption on > > the last double word (4 bytes) in a 64 byte PCI burst whe

Re: ServerWorks LE and MTRR

2001-04-29 Thread nick
Are you sure that is not due to board design differences? Nick On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steffen Persvold wrote: > Gérard Roudier wrote: > > > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steffen Persvold wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I just compiled 2.4.4 and are running it on a Serverworks LE motherboar

Re: ServerWorks LE and MTRR

2001-04-29 Thread Steffen Persvold
Gérard Roudier wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steffen Persvold wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I just compiled 2.4.4 and are running it on a Serverworks LE motherboard. > > Whenever I try to add a write-combining region, it gets rejected. I took a peek > > in the arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c and found

Re: ServerWorks LE and MTRR

2001-04-29 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steffen Persvold wrote: > Hi all, > > I just compiled 2.4.4 and are running it on a Serverworks LE motherboard. > Whenever I try to add a write-combining region, it gets rejected. I took a peek > in the arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c and found that this is just as expected with >

ServerWorks LE and MTRR

2001-04-29 Thread Steffen Persvold
Hi all, I just compiled 2.4.4 and are running it on a Serverworks LE motherboard. Whenever I try to add a write-combining region, it gets rejected. I took a peek in the arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c and found that this is just as expected with v1.40 of the code. It is great that the mtrr code checks an