From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753528AbYIAXUS (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 19:20:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753173AbYIAXQp (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 19:16:45 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:45077 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753870AbYIAXQo (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 19:16:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 16:16:39 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andi Kleen Cc: David Woodhouse , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Misc fixes for 2.6.27 Message-ID: <20080901161639.5215db63@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <87sksjwjwg.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> References: <1220300084.2982.139.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <87wshvwl8v.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20080901153517.2f8b1ef8@infradead.org> <87sksjwjwg.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:01:19 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > Arjan van de Ven writes: > > > On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:32:16 +0200 > > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > >> David Woodhouse 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... -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org