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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86, aperture: Check for GART before accessing GART registers
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    Hi,

    Borislav Petkov wrote on 04/14/2015 13:33:
    > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 01:15:43PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
    >> Hi,
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > please do not top-post.
    >
    >> tried this patch on my HP Pavilion notebook wiht AMD Phenom II processor. The
    >> BIOS has no IOMMU option.
    >> With this patch I'm still seeing the AGP messages mention in the patch description.
    >> Is this processor affected at all?
    >
    > Your CPU has an AGP bridge but the BIOS doesn't leave an aperture so the
    > kernel has to do it. Read the message.
    >
    >> /proc/cpuinfo says "cpu family" 16. That is 10h?
    >
    > Yes.
    >

    thank you for the explanation. Somehow I thought I had a newer CPU w/o GART
    registers, but I misread the patch. Maybe wishful thinking, in the hope to save
    64 MB :-(
    Sorry for the noise.
    --
    Regards,
    jvp.




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