Re: [PATCH 3/4] Revert "x86: disable IOMMUs on kernel crash"

Joerg Roedel
2010-04-03T19:13:18Z

On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 10:49:09AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> writes:

> > Another problem: This also breaks if the kdump kernel has no
> > iommu-support.
>
> Not a problem. We require a lot of things of the kdump kernel,
> and it is immediately apparent in a basic sanity test.

Only if the sanity test is done on an iommu machine which I don't want
to rely on.

Joerg