From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 26 8:24:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A2EE37B417 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 08:24:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.14.206.dial1.denver1.level3.net ([209.245.14.206] helo=sax.killian.com) by hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16UVdN-0002Or-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 08:24:54 -0800 From: "Earl A. Killian" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: AMD/AGP problem in linux -- does it affect FreeBSD? Message-Id: Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 08:24:54 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The following URL potential cache coherency interaction between Athlon speculative writes and the GART. Could FreeBSD be affected? "AMD's educated guess is that these Athlon/AGP stability problems have to do with speculative writes by the CPU and how they can cause indavertent trashing of AGP memory if pages are mapped with indiscretion by the OS and drivers." http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/35/175/7626960 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message