From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Misc fixes for 2.6.27
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 16:16:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080901161639.5215db63@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sksjwjwg.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-01 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-01 20:14 David Woodhouse
2008-09-01 22:32 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-01 22:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-01 23:01 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-01 23:16 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-09-02 6:19 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-02 8:23 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-03 10:53 ` Blacklist DMAR on Intel G31/G33 chipsets David Woodhouse
2008-09-03 12:09 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-03 12:22 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-04 8:54 ` [PATCH] " David Woodhouse
2008-09-05 18:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-05 18:47 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-06 15:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-07 8:20 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-07 15:35 ` [2.6.27 PATCH] " David Woodhouse
2008-09-09 18:39 ` Jesse Barnes
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