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RE: [Xen-devel] making changes to agp code?

To: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] making changes to agp code?
From: "Langsdorf, Mark" <mark.langsdorf@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:37:49 -0500
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] making changes to agp code?
> >> On a second look I believe the implementation is broken even 
> >> on native, as long as !CONFIG_FLATMEM, since there's an
> >> assumption that an invalid PFN cannot be followed by a valid
> >> one. For that reason, I think the code needs to be changed to
> >> call e820_any_mapped() (just like aperture.c does). I have a
> >> tentative patch to do that, but don't have a working box with
> >> an 8151.
> >
> >I do.  You can send it to me for testing.
> 
> Attached - depending on what tree you want to apply it on you
> may have to tweak it a little.

I applied it to xen-unstable with some tweaking (my version
doesn't seem to have an i386 e820-xen.c ??) and to 2.6.20.

System booted correctly and ran fine.

Acked-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@xxxxxxx>

-Mark Langsdorf
Operating Systems Research Center
AMD, Inc.



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