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Date:      Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:42:21 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Craig Boston <craig@tobuj.gank.org>, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Subject:   Re: Weird PCI interrupt delivery problem (resolution, sort of)
Message-ID:  <200601201542.23464.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060120152731.GA5660@nowhere>
References:  <20060120014307.GA3118@nowhere> <43D07273.6030804@samsco.org> <20060120152731.GA5660@nowhere>

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On Friday 20 January 2006 10:27, Craig Boston wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:17:39PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> > This points to a bus coherency problem.  I wonder if your BIOS is
> > incorrectly setting the memory region of the apics as cachable.  You'll
> > want to bug Baldwin about this.
>
> I CC-ed him on my post since he was working with me on the problem
> before.  For some reason the Cc: header got wiped out when it went to
> the list (but I checked my server logs and it did deliver a copy of the
> message to him).

Hmm, well, you can actually try the PAT patch if you are feeling brave as it 
maps all devices (including APICs) as uncacheable.

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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