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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	pgnet.trash@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.29-rc7 2/2] x86: disallow DAC for MCP51 PCI bridge
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:29:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090304132945.2b242e63@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49AE53B5.6000009@kernel.org>

> x86 is blacklisting DAC for everything VIA. :-)

I'd assume that comes from published docs given VIA actually publish
stuff if you ask nicely.
> 
> * MCP51 is a very old chipset at this point (it's circa 2005).  Not
>   many machine would be running with >4GB memory to begin with.
> 
> * Given the above and scarcity of DAC on most end user machines
>   (nothing on MCP51 does DAC by default), lack of reports isn't too
>   surprising.
> 
> * The board doesn't have a 64bit connector.  It can't be dodgy
>   connector and sil24 is known to behave well with DAC.  The failure
>   being specific to the particular machine doesn't seem likely.
> 
> I'll ping nvidia about it but I think your bar is too high.

I don't think wanting to see *two* examples is a high bar.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-04 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-04  2:32 [PATCH 2.6.29-rc7 1/2] x86: fix iommu=nodac parameter handling Tejun Heo
2009-03-04  2:39 ` [PATCH 2.6.29-rc7 2/2] x86: disallow DAC for MCP51 PCI bridge Tejun Heo
2009-03-04  9:57   ` Alan Cox
2009-03-04 10:11     ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-04 13:29       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-03-04 13:36         ` Tejun Heo

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