Subject: Re: How to install NetBSD on Intel ICH8 ?
To: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/25/2006 23:01:46
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 10:53:01PM +0100, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 08:57:38PM +0100, Thomas Feddersen wrote:
> > Am 23.11.2006, 23:45 Uhr, schrieb Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>:
> > >
> > >I've built a release, it's available in
> > >ftp://ftp-asim.lip6.fr/outgoing/bouyer/i386/
> > >
> > Thanks a lot for providing this fine release!
> > The system installs fine and runs allright in idle or low load, but when I  
> > write a large stream of data to the disk(s), the system crashes. I have  
> > filed problem report kern/35120 in this respect.
> > Seems ICH8 is not yet fully supported.
> > 
> > Do you know, whether ICH8 support is planned for the NetBSD-4.0 release?
> 
> Your problem is not ICH8.  The issue is the integrated graphic adapter
> that kind of steals a part of the main memory but NetBSD doesn't know
> about it.  There should be a setting in the BIOS about that.  Not that
> it necessarily solves the issue, but it's a start.

That's bogus. The RAM stolen by the video adapter should not appear in the
RAM segments published by the BIOS. 

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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