Re: [PATCH] x86, gart: fix gart detection for Fam11h CPUs

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:13:54PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> The AMD Fam11h CPUs have a K8 northbridge. This northbridge is different
> from other familys because it lacks GART support (as I just learned).
> But the kernel implicitly expects a GART if it finds an AMD northbridge.
> Fix this by removing the Fam11h northbridge id from the scan list of K8
> northbridges. This patch also changes the message in the GART driver
> about missing K8 northbridges to tell that the GART is missing which is
> the correct information in this case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>

Looks like this needs to be added to the 2.6.27-stable tree also, right?

thanks,

greg k-h

> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/k8.c          |    1 -
>  arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/k8.c b/arch/x86/kernel/k8.c
> index 304d8ba..cbc4332 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/k8.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/k8.c
> @@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ static u32 *flush_words;
>  struct pci_device_id k8_nb_ids[] = {
>  	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMD, PCI_DEVICE_ID_AMD_K8_NB_MISC) },
>  	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMD, PCI_DEVICE_ID_AMD_10H_NB_MISC) },
> -	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMD, PCI_DEVICE_ID_AMD_11H_NB_MISC) },
>  	{}
>  };
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(k8_nb_ids);
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
> index e3f75bb..a42b02b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
> @@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ void __init gart_iommu_init(void)
>  	long i;
>  
>  	if (cache_k8_northbridges() < 0 || num_k8_northbridges == 0) {
> -		printk(KERN_INFO "PCI-GART: No AMD northbridge found.\n");
> +		printk(KERN_INFO "PCI-GART: No AMD GART found.\n");
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> -- 
> 1.5.6.4
> 
> 
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