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From: Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>
Subject: Re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:24:17 -0400
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Andi Kleen wrote:

> Is that a board with VIA chipset?

Yep.

> 
> VIA doesn't seem to support PCI accesses with addresses >4GB and they also
> don't have a working GART IOMMU.
> 
> It will likely work with iommu=force

I'll give this a try.... I do get a line in dmesg which reads:

PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU.