From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751147AbVHSP7E (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:59:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751201AbVHSP7E (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:59:04 -0400 Received: from 64-60-250-34.cust.telepacific.net ([64.60.250.34]:55044 "EHLO panta-1.pantasys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751147AbVHSP7B (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:59:01 -0400 Message-ID: <430601C5.5080505@pantasys.com> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:59:01 -0700 From: Peter Buckingham User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050602) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Sean Bruno , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc6-git10 test report [x86_64](WITHOUT NVIDIA MODULE) References: <1124401950.14825.13.camel@home-lap.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <1124405533.14825.24.camel@home-lap> <20050818230349.GC22993@wotan.suse.de> <1124410753.14825.32.camel@home-lap> <4305FCF1.6020905@pantasys.com> <20050819154639.GL22993@wotan.suse.de> <4306002F.4000000@pantasys.com> <20050819155332.GM22993@wotan.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20050819155332.GM22993@wotan.suse.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Aug 2005 15:58:46.0984 (UTC) FILETIME=[E1E62480:01C5A4D6] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 08:52:15AM -0700, Peter Buckingham wrote: > >>Andi Kleen wrote: >> >>>At least his original error message can only happen when CONFIG_GART_IOMMU >>>is disabled. >>> >>>PCI-DMA: More that 4GB of RAM and no IOMMU >>>PCI-DMA: 32bit PCI IO may malfunction.<6>PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU >> >>Yeah, I agree. In the later dmesgs, though, it seems to be enabled. > > > Those don't show any failure. no they don't. basically it just says your bios hasn't configured enough IOMMU space, so the kernel is going to do it anyway. it's really just a warning or an fyi rather than an error. i may have chosen the word poorly ;-) in short Sean, this isn't a big deal. you only really need to change this if you want to remove a warning from your dmesg output. peter