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Date:      Sat, 4 May 2002 19:54:58 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Odd problem with MTRR and ACPI
Message-ID:  <20020504175458.GF66061@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <200205041037.aa97524@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
References:  <200205040608.g4468Vh00626@mass.dis.org> <200205041037.aa97524@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>

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-On [20020504 11:45], David Malone (dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) wrote:
>I did find some AMD errata docs which hinted at a problem involving
>4MB pages, MTRR and SMM. (Search for "MTRR SMM athlon ASEG" on
>google and you should get the PDF - there are two pages describing
>errata involving ASEG and TSEG. Does anyone know what ASEG and TSEG
>are?) I tried using a kernel with DISABLE_PSE but the problem seemed
>to persist. However, the docs do hint at there being a link between
>SMM and MTRRs for the Athlon.

TSEG - Time Segment
ASEG - Absolute Segment

Those are the ones I know are part of CPUs commonly.

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