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From: "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>
To: Liwei <xieliwei@gmail.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>, xen-users@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: VGA passthrough on unstable
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 18:52:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110524155251.GF32595@reaktio.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinAFfJXZNzHtp8qO_rbhUPNVnVyJQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:49:14PM +0800, Liwei wrote:
> On 24 May 2011 23:43, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Did you take a look at this patch? http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-12/msg00705.html
> > It supports dynamic detection of BARs and might help you (if you're not using it already).
> >
> > -- Pasi
> >
> 
> Yes I did, but it seems that the BAR detection would only work on ATI
> based cards?
> 

Not sure.. I haven't tried the patch myself (and I didn't read it either).. 

> Come to think of it, the decision to get a Nvidia card was probably a
> mistake. Seeing how most successful configurations are using ATI
> cards, I'm thinking of getting an ATI card instead.
> 

People have gotten Xen VGA passthru working with Nvidia cards,
so it just requires some work to figure it all out.. 

> In case I do, any AMD/ATI engineer can confirm if a HD 6870 or 6850 is workable?

We really should get the wiki page up-to-date wrt. tested adapters..
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthroughTestedAdapters


-- Pasi

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-24 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-24 15:35 VGA passthrough on unstable Liwei
2011-05-24 15:43 ` [Xen-devel] " Pasi Kärkkäinen
2011-05-24 15:49   ` Liwei
2011-05-24 15:52     ` Pasi Kärkkäinen [this message]
2011-05-24 18:25     ` Pavel Matěja
2011-05-30 14:23     ` [Xen-devel] " Liwei
2011-05-24 17:27   ` Gennady Marchenko
2011-05-24 15:44 ` Liwei

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