From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 5 17:27:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 393B514C3A for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 17:27:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA99044; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 20:26:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 20:26:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Randall Hopper Cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19990905153907.A7373@ipass.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > Mike Smith: > |> Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE > | > |You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the > |-stable branch, but you might be better off moving to -stable or to > |3.3-RELEASE. > > Ok, I might try that. From Brian's message, it sounds like he's made some > commits for MTRR. Would I need those as well (or are your commits the work > he spoke of). It may be worth specifying that k6_mem.c should be disabled in RELENG_3 pending further investigation of problems with the MTRR interfeace (i.e. that it can corrupt other memory...) For now, it's unsafe. > > Randall > > > -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman / "Any sufficiently advanced bug is \ green@FreeBSD.org | indistinguishable from a feature." | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! \ -- Rich Kulawiec / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message