Re: PROBLEM: memory corruption with i815 chipset variant

From: Nicolas Aspert (Nicolas.Aspert@epfl.ch)
Date: Mon May 27 2002 - 03:56:32 EST


Alan Cox wrote:

>
> It certainly could be. If bits 29-31 maybe control things like memory
> timings then it could do quite horrible things. Fixing it to leave the
> ERRSTS register alone and keep bits 29-31 is definitely worth trying. If
> that fixes it then its going to be easy enough to drop a fix into the
> mainstream code
>

OK, I have a patch almost ready to do that except, I am not sure about
what to do for those 3 bits...

The *usual* call is :
        pci_write_config_dword(agp_bridge.dev, INTEL_ATTBASE,
                               agp_bridge.gatt_bus_addr);

Where 'gatt_bus_addr' is returned from a 'virt_to_phys' on
'gatt_table_real'.

Should I mask those three bits out when writing or write
'gatt_bus_addr >> 3' instead ? I am not too sure about the assumptions
that can be made about what returns 'virt_to_phys' ...

Thanks in advance.

Nicolas.

-- 
Nicolas Aspert      Signal Processing Institute (ITS)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)

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