fc1_x86_64 preview on tyan thunder k8w (S2885ANRF REV .03)

[Mark Lane]

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 09:18, Rob Myers wrote:
> hello-
> 
> thanks for getting fedora working on x86_64!
> 
> i've tried to search linux-kernel archives, archives at www.x86-64.org,
> and bugzilla at redhat.com, but i haven't found all the answers i'm
> looking for.  is there a faq anywhere for linux on x86_64 or even for
> fedora on x86_64?
> 
> my system is running fedora core 1 x86_64 preview updated to kernel
> 2.4.22-1.2129.nptlsmp on dual opteron 248 2.2GHz tyan thunder k8w with
> 4gb of ram.  acpi=off is passed to the kernel as a boot parameter or
> else it hangs with dma errors during or after boot.
> 
> first, i've got 4gb of ram in the machine, but cat /proc/meminfo only
> reports 3.5gb free:
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  3539730432 91926528 3447803904        0 24104960 29126656
> Swap: 4186656768        0 4186656768
> 
> is this a bug or am i missing something?  i also tried passing mem=4G
> with no success
> 

The PCI bus is Memory Mapped at just below the 4GB mark. That's why you
can use the last half GB.

> second, AMD-8111 IDE has dma timeouts if acpi is enabled.  is this a
> known issue?
> 

I believe we tend to shut off acpi because it usually hasn't worked with
our dual opteron systems.

> third, just to report my experience: (i think these are known issues)
> 
> - the onboard broadcom 5703 based gigabit does not work properly with
> tg3, but broadcom 5701 based 3Com 3C996B-T does work properly with tg3.

We had this working but I am not sure what driver we used.

> - the onboard sil SATA controller does not work

Yes this doesn't work because no drivers existed. 2.6.0-test11 has a
patch that will get this working.

> - kernel-smp-2.6.0-0.test11.1.100.x86_64.rpm from
> http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel does not boot, just
> oopses to the console.
> 

I haven't had any luck with Arjan's Kernels on our x86_64 systems. We
just compiled our own.

regards,
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