From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933821AbXCQNLr (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:11:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965268AbXCQNLr (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:11:47 -0400 Received: from pxy2nd.nifty.com ([202.248.175.14]:52645 "HELO pxy2nd.nifty.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S933826AbXCQNLq (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:11:46 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=pxy2nd-default; d=mbf.nifty.com; b=CdfWowO0cUighoyonJQfXpfcfkjSTq/nBLAqaF/Vf74107pV4DQxsezMMarmJ6AX8VPcSNRfNL7CzRDNXagjSg== ; Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:08:10 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20070317.220810.208970218.takada@mbf.nifty.com> To: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Cc: rdreier@cisco.com, pcnet32@verizon.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: MediaGX/GeodeGX1 requires X86_OOSTORE. From: takada In-Reply-To: <20070315173137.GJ22466@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20070220144823.GN7585@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070315.143939.193680310.takada@mbf.nifty.com> <20070315173137.GJ22466@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1 on Emacs 22.0.95 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Subject: Re: MediaGX/GeodeGX1 requires X86_OOSTORE. Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:31:37 -0400 > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:39:39PM +0900, takada wrote: > > Hiroshi Miura posted `Geode out-of-order store enables' patch in Jun, 2003. > > There is http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/6/5/57 . > > OOSTORE was enabled at this point in time. It seems to have disappeared somewhere. > > I believe the patch was rejected as 'not required' since the data sheet > is not very clear on that "feature". Is it http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/6/5/85 you mean? It seems not to be surely written in data sheet that OOSTORE is necessary. But Geode reorder memory access. > > BTW, I use MediaGX with kernel 2.6.20(and 2.6.20.3) and suspend2. When I resume > > the PC and use the PC Card modem, PC is hungup. However, PC isn't hung up when > > I apply a WBINVD patch. > > I can't understand it whether there is problem in resume of suspend2 or MediaGX > > or both. Many drivers lack support for resume on my PC. > > Which patch are you refering to? I tested some patterns. just X86_OOSTORE was effective. WBINVD is needless. --- arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu~ 2007-02-05 03:44:54.000000000 +0900 +++ arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu 2007-02-17 21:25:52.000000000 +0900 @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ config X86_USE_3DNOW config X86_OOSTORE bool - depends on (MWINCHIP3D || MWINCHIP2 || MWINCHIPC6) && MTRR + depends on (MWINCHIP3D || MWINCHIP2 || MWINCHIPC6) && MTRR || MGEODEGX1 default y config X86_TSC