Heh, finally someone that's actually trying to fix this. 8)
;-)
The right thing is going to be to fix the MTRR code to preserve the
extra MTRR bits; I've tried a few times to get some documentation on what
these other bits mean without any luck.
The code I added to the MTRR stuff
-On [20020504 11:45], David Malone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I did find some AMD errata docs which hinted at a problem involving
4MB pages, MTRR and SMM. (Search for MTRR SMM athlon ASEG on
google and you should get the PDF - there are two pages describing
errata involving ASEG and TSEG. Does
Heh, finally someone that's actually trying to fix this. 8)
The right thing is going to be to fix the MTRR code to preserve the
extra MTRR bits; I've tried a few times to get some documentation on what
these other bits mean without any luck.
You'll need to hide these bits from the layers
I have an ASUS A7A266 motherboard with an Athlon XP processor which
seems prone to weirdness. The BIOS seems to set the MTRRs to some
undocumented values, which used to prevent X starting. I've now
fixed the MTRR code and X works fine.
Unfortunately, when X changes the MTRRs then ACPI stops
