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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc6-git10 test report [x86_64]
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:03:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050818230349.GC22993@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1124405533.14825.24.camel@home-lap>

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:52:13PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> With earlier kernels(2.6.11) I was able to boot my machine with ACPI
> enabled, but most devices(sound, onboard ethernet, SATA controllers,
> USB) were unusuable but they were detected.  I was able to work around
> this issue by disabling ACPI in my system BIOS.  

Keeping it on and using pci=noacpi might be better.

> available.  Since 2.6.12, when I re-activate ACPI in my system BIOS, I
> can't boot my machine as it gives me an error about no IOMMU and having
> 6GB of RAM.  This error was not listed in the dmesg posted before as I
> can't boot my machine past this error.
> 
> Here is the exact output when booting 2.6.13 with ACPI enabled:
> 
> Decompressing Linux ... Done
> Booting the kernel
> PCI-DMA:  More that 4GB of RAM and no IOMMU
> PCI-DMA:  32bit PCI IO may malfunction.<6>PCI-DMA:  Disabling IOMMU

This has nothing to do with ACPI. The problem here is that you 
didn't enable the IOMMU code in the kernel .config

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-18 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1124401950.14825.13.camel@home-lap.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2005-08-18 21:59 ` 2.6.13-rc6-git10 test report [x86_64] Andi Kleen
     [not found]   ` <1124405533.14825.24.camel@home-lap>
2005-08-18 23:03     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-08-18 23:26       ` Sean Bruno
2005-08-19  0:19       ` 2.6.13-rc6-git10 test report [x86_64](WITHOUT NVIDIA MODULE) Sean Bruno
2005-08-19 15:38         ` Peter Buckingham
2005-08-19 15:46           ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-19 15:52             ` Peter Buckingham
2005-08-19 15:53               ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-19 15:59                 ` Peter Buckingham
2005-08-19 16:11                   ` Sean Bruno
2005-08-19 16:22                     ` Peter Buckingham
2005-08-20 21:35                       ` Joseph Fannin
2005-08-19 20:41 2.6.13-rc6-git10 test report [x86_64] Sean Bruno
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-18 21:52 Sean Bruno

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