Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:55:25 +0100 | From | Joerg Roedel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, gart: fix gart detection for Fam11h CPUs |
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:52:36AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:13:54PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote: > > The AMD Fam11h CPUs have a K8 northbridge. This northbridge is different > > from other familys because it lacks GART support (as I just learned). > > But the kernel implicitly expects a GART if it finds an AMD northbridge. > > Fix this by removing the Fam11h northbridge id from the scan list of K8 > > northbridges. This patch also changes the message in the GART driver > > about missing K8 northbridges to tell that the GART is missing which is > > the correct information in this case. > > > > Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> > > Looks like this needs to be added to the 2.6.27-stable tree also, right?
No, this patch not. The PCI id was added during the .28 merge window.
Joerg
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