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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trenn@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: mtrr: don't modify RdDram/WrDram bits of fixed MTRRs
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:24:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86802c440903121124o10439dcdvf8b9fa0b37c62062@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090312114121.GF20716@alberich.amd.com>

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Andreas Herrmann
<andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:01:26AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> wonder if you could add one dmi check to tell the user that bios is
>> buggy, ask vendor fixed BIOS
>> and skip fixed mtrr sync.
>
> There seem to be several systems affected that do not hide
> RdMem/WrMem bits from OS.
>
>  (Causing Suspend/resume problem:)
> - Acer Ferrari 1000
> - Acer Ferrari 5000
>  (Causing kernel freeze:)
> - Asus M51TR-AP003C notebook
> - Asus M51Ta notebook
> - Asus M3A-H/HDMI mobo

they didn't run bios testsuite or bios testsuite miss that checking?

YH

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-12 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-11 15:00 [PATCH] x86: mtrr: don't modify RdDram/WrDram bits of fixed MTRRs Andreas Herrmann
2009-03-12  8:01 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-12 11:41   ` Andreas Herrmann
2009-03-12 12:29     ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-03-12 12:53       ` Andreas Herrmann
2009-03-12 18:24     ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2009-03-13  9:06       ` Andreas Herrmann
2009-03-12 16:39 ` [PATCH v2] " Andreas Herrmann
2009-03-13  1:58   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13  8:42     ` Thomas Renninger
2009-03-13  9:18       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13 10:08         ` How to submit patches that should be considered for stable inclusion also [Was: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: mtrr: ...] Thomas Renninger
2009-03-13 20:27           ` Greg KH
2009-03-13  9:04     ` [PATCH v2] x86: mtrr: don't modify RdDram/WrDram bits of fixed MTRRs Andreas Herrmann
2009-03-13  9:21       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13  2:35   ` [tip:x86/mtrr] " Andreas Herrmann
2009-03-13  9:21   ` Andreas Herrmann

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