Messages in this thread | | | From | Jörg-Volker Peetz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, aperture: Check for GART before accessing GART registers | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:22:48 +0200 |
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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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