From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752033AbZITFJP (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:09:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751264AbZITFJO (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:09:14 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:60920 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750797AbZITFJO (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:09:14 -0400 Subject: Re: Current git fails to boot with VT-D enabled due to flood of DMAR errors From: David Woodhouse To: Robert Hancock Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <4AB5B395.80400@gmail.com> References: <4AB5B07B.5090506@gmail.com> <1253421668.6317.83.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <4AB5B395.80400@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:09:13 -0700 Message-Id: <1253423353.6317.85.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 (2.26.3-1.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 22:46 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > > Yeah, I just came across that patch. Is that going to get pushed for > 2.6.32? It seems like something caused us to start tripping over this > by default when we didn't before. (Passing intel_iommu=on with > 2.6.30.5 does cause the same problem.) Yes, I'll push it in the next day or so. Just waiting for another last-minute fix to be tested by someone other than me, and then I'll ask Linus to pull. > I'll try and report the problem to Asus, obviously something's borked > with VT-d in their BIOS currently.. Good luck with that. Their normal response is to say "it boots Windows so it must be perfect". Despite the fact that Windows doesn't actually use VT-d. Idiots. -- dwmw2