From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI Device Assignment status
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 19:00:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100905170008.GC8162@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=3KgPTUwxJezTRjEODWfY1f9bMHVSvzBQurrBt@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:38:00PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I wanted to know the status of PCI device assignment.
> >
> > As far as I can see in the webpage and in the mailing list, it seems to be
> > working ok if you have VT-d support on the motherboard and cpu. But if it isn't
> > too much trouble, I wanted some confirmation about this, since I'm not sure and
> > I don't want to buy hardware to test this when there is no way it's going to
> > work :)
>
> Yes, it works if you have VT-d support (Intel) or AMD IOMMU (note this
> is different than the AMD GART that's often used as an IOMMU). The
> Intel boxes are a lot easier to find.
For an AMD IOMMU you just need to buy a Mainboard with the AMD 890FX
chipset. As far as I know all available boards support IOMMU with the
latest BIOS.
On the server-side, look for an AMD SR56x0 chipset [where x=(5|7|9)].
Joerg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-05 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-03 15:54 PCI Device Assignment status Rodrigo Campos
2010-09-03 22:38 ` Alex Williamson
2010-09-04 2:45 ` Rodrigo Campos
2010-09-05 17:00 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2010-09-06 14:38 ` Rodrigo Campos
2010-09-04 0:48 ` Kenni Lund
2010-09-04 2:57 ` Rodrigo Campos
2010-09-06 11:11 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2010-09-06 14:40 ` Rodrigo Campos
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