On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 06:04:23PM -0500, David Dawes wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 02:29:46PM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote:
>>David Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 12:15:56PM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote:
>>> >David Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>v> >
>>> >> Can you send the 4.4.0 log for reference?
>>> >
>>> >Sure.
>>> >
>>> >While diffing both logs, I've noticed that 4.5.0rc2 detects this card
>>> >as PCI, while 4.4.0 detects it correctly as an AGP card.
>>> 
>>> Both logs show 256MB detected, but overriden to 128MB.  
>>
>>Yes, I had the 128 MB override on for both 4.4.0 and 4.5.0rc2.
>>
>>> Did 4.4.0 work without this override?  
>>
>>Yes, however:
>>
>> 1. the kernel was giving me warnings about mtrr base address not
>>    being a multiple of the mtrr extent size:
>>
>>      mtrr: base(0xe8000000) is not aligned on a size(0x10000000) boundary
>>
>> 2. I had wierd instability issues, which might not have been related;
>>
>> 3. the PCI registers clearly shows that the IO memory is only 128 MB
>>    long.
>
>The attached patch may address this, and should be equivalent to using
>the override that you're using now.

Any feedback on this?  If not, I'll leave this until after the 4.5.0
release.

David
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