Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Sep 2008 15:35:17 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Misc fixes for 2.6.27 |
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On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:32:16 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes: > > + > > +static struct dmi_system_id __initdata intel_iommu_dmi_table[] = { > > + { /* Some DG33BU BIOS revisions advertised > > non-existent VT-d */ > > Are you sure it's non existent? A G33 chipset should have it in > hardware I thought.
nope they don't/ later ones and some other models do though, but not the G33 > > I'm not sure this is really the right way to handle this anyways. > If there's ever a working BIOS it will be blacklisted too. And > normally BIOS bugs don't come in one board alone, but in a range > of them and then adding more and more identifiers is quite painful.
the bios bug here is that it accidentally DID advertise the capability, even though it's not there.
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