Re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole

On Friday 07 July 2006 23:18, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:52:38 +0200
Martin Michlmayr [off-list ref] wrote:

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We received the following bug report at http://bugs.debian.org/341801

| I have a Asus A8V with 4GB of RAM. When I turn on the hardware memory
| hole in the BIOS, the skge driver prints out this message:
|       skge hardware error detected (status 0xc00)
| and then does not work. Setting debug=16 doesn't really show anything.

Is that a board with VIA chipset?

VIA doesn't seem to support PCI accesses with addresses >4GB and they also
don't have a working GART IOMMU.

It will likely work with iommu=force

I've been pondering to force this, but was still waiting for more reports.

-Andi