Re: IOMMU and graphics cards

Ingo Molnar
2009-05-07T11:02:19Z

* FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:

> > The proprietary drivers make problems so far. For the ATI one I
> > am in contact with the developers to try to fix it. But I can't
> > do anything about the other proprietary driver I am aware of :-(
>
> I don't know anything about the graphic drivers but are there any
> other proprietary drivers except for ATI and AMD? Fixing only two
> drivers to make the majority happy?

ATI ~== AMD these days. The problem is Nvidia cards stuck into AMD
systems.

I guess refusing those DMA accesses (and printing something
meaningful and relentlessly honest so that the user knows where the
problem comes from) is the proper solution. There will be some
end-user moaning, there might be distros turning off the IOMMU code
summarily, but nvidia-in-AMD-box is an unfriendly alliance to begin
with.

Ingo