Subject: Re: ThinkPad T61p X crash location: mtrr
To: Arto Huusko <arto.huusko@pp2.inet.fi>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@NetBSD.org>
List: port-amd64
Date: 10/19/2007 21:37:35
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:33:59PM +0300, Arto Huusko wrote:
> >>The agp issue aside, I was able to track down where the crash
> >>occurs (without the agp, of course): X crashes the machine
> >>during init (xf86MapVidMem) in the call to i386_set_mttr from
> >>NetBSDsetWC() in hw/xfree86/os-support/bsd/i386_video.c.
> >
> >there is a Option "NoMTRR" for the SCREEN section of XF86Config, maybe it
> >could help?
> 
> For some reason I couldn't get the NoMTRR option to do anything
> useful, X still tried to use the MTRR's with that option enabled.
> 
> But it does not matter because I already fixed the MTRR problem.
> See port-amd64/37043 (I guess the PR has not been noticed, because
> the patch has not been applied yet).

I have looked in the amd64 manual. Your patch seems correct and I have
committed it (except for the change of uint32_t to u_int). Thanks.

Pavel