From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 8 3:44:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rs.ksl.co.il (rs.ksl.co.il [199.203.44.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E2237B5A3; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 03:44:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roman@xpert.com) Received: from localhost (roman@localhost) by rs.ksl.co.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA49286; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:52:21 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: rs.ksl.co.il: roman owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:52:21 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon To: Mike Smith Cc: Coleman Kane , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K6-MTRRs In-Reply-To: <200003062121.NAA00563@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: Organization: Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What models/revisions seem to be broken? I *think* that K6-2 mtrr works. On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > Well, I know that they are different form those on the PII/III line, > > and that there are only two. I think that they are implemented in some > > windows drivers and programs. Maybe whoever is in charge of it could > > contact me, I have some AMD tech docs and maybe I could take a crack at > > it. > > I'm not sure I follow you. We have implemented support for the K6 memory > range registers, and having done so, discovered that they don't behave > like they should. Thus, support was disabled for these CPUs. There's > nothing more to do, as far as I'm aware - the hardware itself is broken. > > > --cokane > > > > Mike Smith had the audacity to say: > > > > I know that the k6 mtrr code is broken. Who is actively working on > > > > this? I have been messing with it and know that it screws up the > > > > framebuffer writes in xfree86 4.0. It prevents the writes of certain > > > > parts of the pixel values. > > > > > > Evidence suggests that the problem is actually in the K6 itself. > > > > > > -- > > > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > > > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > > > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message