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<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:31:44 +0900, SONE Takeshi wrote:</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> >On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 07:22:45PM -0600, ron minnich wrote:</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#800000"> >>OK, I am now seeing these K7SEM lockups I think from more than one person,</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#800000"> >>happening in that 'set UC on the fixed MTRRs' step.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> ></FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> >I've seen this symptom on EPIA when the RAM is not correctly</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> >initialized.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> >I thought that until MTRR is set to UnCacheable, linuxbios_c runs on</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> >cache, not RAM.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> ></FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#800000"> >>Is there any chance that recent changes to improve boot time have caused</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#800000"> >>trouble in the K7-based boards?</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> ></FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> >At least my modification to enable cache on 0xF0000-0xFFFFF area</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> >is not in CVS.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> ></FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> >--</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> >Takeshi</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> hi there,</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> is there anything i can do on my system, since its here and ready to rock n roll n compile, that will contribute/help in </FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> getting the K7SEM up and running in light of the recent changes to LInuxBIOS. Also, can i access an earlier version of the linuxbios CVS tree that might be more fruitfull?</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3> Best regards</FONT><br></div>
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<div><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> Alex Scarbro, linuxbios@techfreakz.net on 24/06/2003</FONT><br></div>
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