From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Christian Tramnitz <chris.ace@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Re: VT-d on Asus P7P55D-Evo: IOMMU not supported
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:48:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100409134818.GA26880@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100401055024.GC1878@reaktio.net>
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:50:24AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:29:03AM +0200, Christian Tramnitz wrote:
> > 31.03.2010 22:51, Mark Hurenkamp wrote:
> > > Asus doesn't seem to pay much attention to VT-d issues with their P55
> > > boards, i couldn't find any indication that they are working on it.
> > > I tried to submit a tech support question, but it requires a serial number,
> > > which i seem to be unable to locate on the board.
> >
> > Even if you find the serial and open the support case there will be no
> > meaningful answer just "Linux is not supported". Been there, done that....
> >
>
> Please see here:
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenPCIpassthrough
>
> Especially this:
> "Intel developers also want to know about broken IOMMU/VT-d BIOS implementations, see this email: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-01/msg00841.html, so let them know all the details about your hardware and software if you have broken BIOS. "
This just got posted on LKML that might shed the light on why certain
motherboards have VT-d working i7 but not with i5 CPUs:
(https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2010-April/002268.html):
"
When using iommu_domain_alloc with the Intel iommu, the domain address width
is always initialized to 48 bits (agaw 2). This domain->agaw value is then
used by pfn_to_dma_pte to (always) build a 4 level page table. However, not
all systems support iommu width of 48 or 4 level page tables. In particular,
the Core i5-660 and i5-670 support an address width of 36 bits (not 39!), an
agaw of only 1, and only 3 level page tables.
My patch delays the domain initialization until the first iommu_attach_device,
...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-09 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-30 20:57 VT-d on Asus P7P55D-Evo: IOMMU not supported Mark Hurenkamp
2010-03-31 5:26 ` Cui, Dexuan
2010-03-31 20:51 ` Mark Hurenkamp
2010-03-31 21:34 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-03-31 22:29 ` Christian Tramnitz
2010-04-01 5:50 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-04-09 13:48 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
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