From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 18:56:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C17937B409; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:56:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-63.214.196.92.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([63.214.196.92] helo=sparky) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17KUhv-000590-00; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:56:28 -0700 From: Jud To: Scott Robbins , Morsal Rodbay Cc: Jordan K Hubbard , C J Michaels , Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD Hackers Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:56:50 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <20020618234948.T87052@darius.2y.net> Message-Id: <32NH761WWUKJ0FB41VSMJ52KE31XU1T.3d0fe4e2@sparky> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Opera 6.04 build 1129 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 6/18/2002 5:49:48 PM, Morsal Rodbay wrote: >On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 05:24:38PM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:17:57PM +0200, Morsal Rodbay wrote: >> > Someone mentioned this MTRR problem earlier, I even tried a patch but it was >> > unsuccessful. I think I'll make a new try with FreeBSD 4.6, maybe things >> > will be more successful then. >> >> The particular problem seems to be with some (not all) ASUS >> boards. I had the problem and it has been fixed with 4.6 > >Glad to hear that, going to install 4.6 soon. I don't think it's to do with MTRR. From on and off-list correspondence with folks trying to get FreeBSD running on the A7V333 (on which I'm happily running 4-STABLE), it's Soeren Schmidt's ATA driver improvements which allow FreeBSD to work with the PDC20276 controller chip. These were committed after 4.5-RELEASE. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message