From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932317AbWGGV3R (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 17:29:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932316AbWGGV3R (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 17:29:17 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:13237 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932314AbWGGV3Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 17:29:16 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 23:28:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Martin Michlmayr , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 341801@bugs.debian.org, asd@suespammers.org, kevin@sysexperts.com References: <20060703205238.GA10851@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20060707141843.73fc6188@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> In-Reply-To: <20060707141843.73fc6188@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607072328.51282.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 07 July 2006 23:18, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:52:38 +0200 > Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > We received the following bug report at http://bugs.debian.org/341801 > > > > | I have a Asus A8V with 4GB of RAM. When I turn on the hardware memory > > | hole in the BIOS, the skge driver prints out this message: > > | skge hardware error detected (status 0xc00) > > | and then does not work. Setting debug=16 doesn't really show anything. Is that a board with VIA chipset? VIA doesn't seem to support PCI accesses with addresses >4GB and they also don't have a working GART IOMMU. It will likely work with iommu=force I've been pondering to force this, but was still waiting for more reports. -Andi