From: "Bryan K. Walton" <thisisnotmyid@tds.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: problems with 1gb ddr memory sticks on linux
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:56:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020808195658.GO16225@weccusa.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1028836012.28883.61.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
Many thanks to Alan, Mark, and everyone else who offered advice on fixing my
problem with my bios and large memory sticks. I rewrote the /proc/mtrr
and everything is speedy now!
Thank you!
Bryan
On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 19:40, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > echo "base=0x00000000 size=0x60000000 type=write-back" >/proc/mtrr
> >
> > should override the BIOS setting and make your machine speed up.
>
> don't mtrrs still have to be a power of two in size?
> ie, he'd need two for 1024+256...
You are correct he should add one starting at 0 for 1Gb and one at 1Gb
for 256Mb - my error.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-08 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-08 16:04 Bryan K. Walton
2002-08-08 16:19 ` Kasper Dupont
2002-08-08 16:52 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-08 17:47 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-08 16:39 ` Bryan K. Walton
2002-08-08 18:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-08 19:46 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-08 19:56 ` Bryan K. Walton [this message]
2002-08-08 17:50 ` Mike Dresser
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