From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 7 16:27:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD5F3155DB for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 16:27:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA46605; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 19:25:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 19:25:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Peter Wemm , aa8vb@ipass.net, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199909071737.TAA00842@yedi.iaf.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 recently (snapshots of pre-4.0.) I am going to see what could be wrong, and possibly reenable the code at a later date. For now, it's considered "dangerous" and you shouldn't mess with it unless you are willing to accept the risks that entails. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman / "Any sufficiently advanced bug is \ green@FreeBSD.org | indistinguishable from a feature." | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! \ -- Rich Kulawiec / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message