Re: PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space on x86-64 (Athlon64x2), with solution

[Michael Monnerie <m.monnerie@zmi.at>]

On Freitag, 3. März 2006 23:23 Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I'll happen but not soon.  Motivation is low at NV and here as well,
> since newer NV is AHCI.  The code in question, "NV ADMA", is
> essentially legacy at this point -- though I certainly acknowledge
> the large current installed base.  Just being honest about the
> current state of things...

I'd like to raise motivation a lot because most MB sold here (central 
Europe) are Nforce4 with Athlon64x2 at the moment. It would be nice 
from vendors if they support OSS developers more, as it's their 
interest to have good drivers.

For the moment, I'd recommend *against* using Nforce4 because of that 
problems we had (and that caused us a lot of unpaid repairing work). 
Hopefully NV does something quick to resolve the remaining issues, 
especially as the 4GB "border" is hit more and more often.

mfg zmi
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