Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Sep 2008 16:16:39 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Misc fixes for 2.6.27 |
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On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:01:19 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> writes: > > > 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 see. But presumably that chipset will be in other motherboards > too and that BIOS bug might be also wider spread. So it would be > still better to key off an PCI-ID or similar. >
it would be nice, no doubt, unfortunately this code runs (and needs to run) before the PCI subsystem is initialized...
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