Re: X86_64 + VIA + 4g problems

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Jan 03 2006 - 08:57:09 EST


Dieter Stüken <stueken@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Can you please post the full boot log? ...
> > When you not compile in the SKGE network driver does everything else work?
> > skge supports 64bit DMA, so it shouldn't use any IOMMU. But I'm somewhat
> > suspicious of the >4GB support in the VIA chipset. We had problems with
> > that before. It's possible that it's just not supported in the hardware
> > or that the BIOS sets up the MTRRs wrong.
>
> sorry for the delay, we are a few hors off here...

Does everything work (including the SKGE) driver
when you boot with swiotlb=force ?

-Andi
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