Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre6

From: Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 05:51:10 EST


On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:36:44PM +0200, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:14:38PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > > AGP stuff still does not work for me. (It broke somewhere around 2.4.20-pre4
> > > and I reported it at that time, but nobody was interested in that somehow)
> > Does the kernel print a message like "Advanced speculative caching feature present"
> > or not present at boot up?
>
> Nothing even remotely similar to that.
> Also I greeped the source tree and have found nothing similar to that in source,
> too.
>
> > If yes does it go away when you boot with unsafe-gart-alias ?
>
> There seems to be no such option, too
> green@angband:~/bk_work/reiser3-linux-2.4> grep -r gart-alias *
> green@angband:~/bk_work/reiser3-linux-2.4>

That was just for double checking. Looks like Marcelo removed it already.

>
> > What other command line options do you use? Perhaps mem=nopentium? If yes
> > does it help when you boot without that and with unsafe-gart-alias specified.
>
> Yes, if I remove mem=nopentium , it boots ok.

Ok. That makes it clearer.

One final question: Did you compile your kernel with CONFIG_X86_PAE
(= CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G) ?

-Andi

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