Re: ALI 1541,K6,AGP 2.4.3-ac12 instability

2001-04-23 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Mark Swanson wrote: > Hello, > > When I enable AGP on my ALI system 2D seems to work fine but 3D causes > kernel oops messages. (Ran through ksymoops) It looks like it could be > an NVidia driver problem, but I doubt it as I run this with AGP at work with > no problems. I'm wondering if anyone e

Re: DRI doesn't work on 2.4.0 but does on prerelease-ac5

2001-01-07 Thread Jeff Hartmann
> Could XFree86 4.0.2 fix this? I had been waiting until the binary packages were > available from ftp.slackware.com because Patrick Volkerding lays out the > directories in a slightly different manner that he argues pretty convincingly is > preferable, but it would be a drag for me to reproduce

Re: Problem with 2.4.0 agpgart on Dell D4100 (probably) Intel i815

2001-01-10 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Charles McLachlan wrote: > (The ultimate cause of what I'm about to tell you may well be a chipset > problem, but I think I've uncovered a tiny bit of kernel weirdness none > the less) > > Does anyone have any idea what is going on? > > Charlie - Queens' College - Cavendish Astrophysics - 0786

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.0 agpgart with i815 and external card.

2001-01-10 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Charles McLachlan wrote: > My problem was that I didn't pay enough attention to the configuration > options. I opted for *both* the 440LX/BX/GX, 815, 840, 850 support > (CONFIG_AGP_INTEL) *and* I810/I815 (on-board) support (CONFIG_AGP_I810). > > The latter was taking precedence over the former,

Re: Patch for aic7xxx 2.4.0 test12 hang

2001-01-19 Thread Jeff Hartmann
>> There is also a known issue with U160 modes and the currently >> embedded aic7xxx driver. > > > That's true the problem is the TCQ command seems to be sequencing wrong. > > >> You might want to try the Adaptec >> supported driver from here: >> >> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/

Re: Nice oops from agpgart - 2.2 kernels and Alpha

2000-10-13 Thread Jeff Hartmann
d registers */ > pci_read_config_dword(agp_bridge.dev, AMD_MMBASE, &temp); > printk(KERN_INFO PFX "Read irongate temp %x\n", temp); > temp = (temp & PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_MASK); > printk(KERN_INFO PFX "Masked temp to %x\n", temp); >

Re: AGPGART problems with VIA KX133 chipsets under 2.2.18/2.4.0

2001-01-23 Thread Jeff Hartmann
e output below is just from insmod,rmmod,insmod agpgart without starting > X. > > insmod agpgart for the first time: > Jan 22 23:17:10 deepblue kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff > Hartmann > Jan 22 23:17:10 deepblue kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp >

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: AGPGART problems with VIA KX133 chipsets under 2.2.18/2.4.0

2001-01-23 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Markus Hadwiger wrote: > Michael Guntsche wrote: > >>> While playing around with the agpgart module I noticed the following strange >>> behaviour. >>> >>> The hardware in question is an Asus K7V with the KX133 chipset and has been >>> tes

Re: Page Attribute Table (PAT) support?

2001-01-24 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Timur Tabi wrote: > The Page Attribute Table (PAT) is an extension to the x86 page table format > that lets you enable Write Combining on a per-page basis. Details can be found > in chapter 9.13 of the Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 3 > (System Programming). > > I notice

Re: Page Attribute Table (PAT) support?

2001-01-24 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Timur Tabi wrote: > ** Reply to message from Jeff Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 24 Jan > 2001 11:45:43 -0700 > > > >> I'm actually writing support for the PAT as we speak. I already have >> working code for PAT setup. Just having a p

Re: Page Attribute Table (PAT) support?

2001-01-24 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Timur Tabi wrote: > ** Reply to message from Jeff Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 24 Jan > 2001 11:45:43 -0700 > > > >> I'm actually writing support for the PAT as we speak. I already have >> working code for PAT setup. Just having a p

Re: Page Attribute Table (PAT) support?

2001-01-24 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Timur Tabi wrote: > ** Reply to message from Jeff Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 24 Jan > 2001 13:41:41 -0700 > > >> When you mark a page UCWC, you better >> have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble. > > > What exa

Re: ioremap_nocache problem?

2001-01-25 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Timur Tabi wrote: > ** Reply to message from Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 25 Jan 2001 > 17:44:51 +0100 > > > >> set_bit(PG_reserved, &page->flags); >> ioremap(); >> ... >> iounmap(); >> clear_bit(PG_reserved, &page->flags); > > > The problem with this is that

Re: ioremap_nocache problem?

2001-01-25 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Timur Tabi wrote: > ** Reply to message from Jeff Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 25 Jan > 2001 10:04:47 -0700 > > > >>> The problem with this is that between the ioremap and iounmap, the page is >>> reserved. What happens if that page belongs

Re: x86 PAT errata

2001-01-25 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Mikael Pettersson wrote: > Before people get too exited about the x86 Page Attribute Table ... > Does Linux use mode B (CR4.PSE=1) or mode C (CR4.PAE=1) paging? > If so, known P6 errata must be taken into account. > In particular, Pentium III errata E27 and Pentium II errata A56 > imply that only

Re: ioremap_nocache problem?

2001-01-25 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Timur Tabi wrote: > ** Reply to message from Jeff Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 25 Jan > 2001 10:47:13 -0700 > > > >> As in an MMIO aperture? If its MMIO on the bus you should be able to >> just call ioremap with the bus address. By nature of it

Re: ioremap_nocache problem?

2001-01-25 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Timur Tabi wrote: > ** Reply to message from Jeff Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 25 Jan > 2001 11:13:35 -0700 > > > >> You need to have your driver in the early bootup process then. When >> memory is being detected (but before the free lists are create

Re: x86 PAT errata

2001-01-25 Thread Jeff Hartmann
H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > >> Before people get too exited about the x86 Page Attribute Table ... >> Does Linux use mode B (CR4.PSE=1) or mode C (CR4.PAE=1) paging? >> If so, k

[RFC] [PATCH] PAT Implementation

2001-01-26 Thread Jeff Hartmann
I've gotten my PAT code working on my PIII boxen here. It seems to be reasonable stable for me. I'd appreciate it if the individuals interested in per page write combining would take a look at it. I've only included initialization code for the AMD and Intel processors. This patch replaces t

Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master

2001-02-08 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Alex Deucher wrote: > I'm not sure about the mga source, but you can enable busmaster manually > as root. See the dri-devel list for more. I can't remember the exact > message off hand. THere was also some discussion of this last week I > think. > > Alex > > > >

Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master

2001-02-08 Thread Jeff Hartmann
ns on busmastering if it >> is off for a particular device. > > > OK. > >> Jeff Hartmann wrote: >> >>> The DRM drivers don't know about the pcidev structure at all. All this >>> is done in the XFree86 ddx driver. You can probab

Re: [OT] Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master

2001-02-08 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Alex Deucher wrote: > There is preliminary support for pcigart in the dri tree. I believe > some people have had some success with it. > > Alex > > Petr Vandrovec wrote: > >> On 8 Feb 01 at 13:14, Alex Deucher wrote: >> >>> Jeff Hartmann wrote: &g

Re: paging question

2001-02-09 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Daniel Stodden wrote: > hi. > > i desperately hope this is not too stupid. > > i'm trying to write a driver which depends on giving pci devices > access to somewhat larger amounts of pysical memory. let's say, a > megabyte of contiguous ram. Your unlikely to get 1 MB of contigous ram unless yo

Re: HUGE contiguous mem space with 2.4

2001-05-23 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Christophe Beaumont wrote: > Hi... > > I am facing an odd problem here. I have an application here > that requires a HUGE physically contiguous memory area to > be locked (yes, I have hardware DMA'ing in and out of that > area, over the PCI bus). HUGE being like one Gig (could be > more if need

Re: [CHECKER] free bugs in 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac8

2001-05-25 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Alan Cox wrote: > >> return; >> >/u2/engler/mc/oses/linux/2.4.4-ac8/drivers/char/drm/gamma_dma.c:573:gamma_dma_send_buffers: > ERROR:FREE:561:573: WARN: Use-after-free of "last_buf"! set by 'drm_free_buffer':561 >> DRM_DEBUG("%d running\n", current->pid); > > > Left