Re: GART_IOMMU without AGP

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:17:38PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
 > On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:37:46 -0400
 > Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:26:49PM +0400, Pavel Vasilyev wrote:
 > >  > In the kernel configuration, if I choose x86_64 and PCI, then choose the item
 > >  > "Garth IOMMU support", which, in turn, chooses not to switch off, support for
 > >  > AGP. But many IOMMU system does not have AGP bus.
 > >  
 > > The lack of AGP slots doesn't mean a lack of AGP bus.
 > > It's part of the K8 on-CPU northbridge.
 > 
 > And the user is selecting CONFIG_AGP to select AGP devices rather than to
 > demonstrate their deep guru grade knowledge of K8 northbridges.

The user isn't selecting it at all. IOMMU is because it knows better than
the user.  "I'll turn this on for you, so that I don't corrupt your hard
disk when you load a video driver" seems eminently sensible to me.

 > Not only
 > that but CONFIG_AGP controls the display of AGP video card options so it
 > is a selection for offered devices not really an internal detail.

CONFIG_AGP has _nothing_ to do with video card options.
It's entirely about the aperture.

	Dave