From: Leonardo Prosperi <leo.prosperi@gmail.com>
To: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Cc: "Huang2, Wei" <Wei.Huang2@amd.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: IOMMU and AMD 890fx
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 21:07:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikDGRtmZgT3DdOcdnyDTMr4TnAperaeTXcfB0cM@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4410545273.20100510083852@eikelenboom.it>
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Gigabyte motherboards don't support IOMMU:
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/ga-890fxa-ud5-iommu-bios-switch-39801/
MSI boards have the same problems:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.user/58630
ASUS Crosshair IV Formula has IOMMU, but I cannot find if it works with Xen.
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>wrote:
> Hello Wei,
>
> I hope motherboard manufacturers do a better job with supporting this iommu
> in the bios than they did with intel's. Especially Asus made a mess of it,
> and hasn't fixed it in newer bioses for multiple motherboards.
> And since all motherboard reviews don't mention nor test the iommu it's
> hard to know upfront if it's supported :-(
>
> --
>
> Sander
>
> > Leonardo,
>
> > I can confirm that AMD 890FX supports IOMMU v1.22. It was briefly
> mentioned by external sites, such as
> http://techreport.com/articles.x/18825. It looks like Asus, Gigabyte and
> MSI will ship motherboards with 890FX chipset. Xen 4.0 fully supports AMD
> IOMMU v1.2. Note that IOMMU needs support from BIOS (ACPI IVRS table).
> Please pay a bit attention to this area.
>
> > -Wei
>
> > From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:
> xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Leonardo Prosperi
> > Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 1:02 PM
> > To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> > Subject: [Xen-devel] IOMMU and AMD 890fx
>
>
> > Hi,
> > All the reviews for the AMD 890fx chipset reported that it supports IOMMU
> v1.2.
> > But I cannot find any mention of that on AMD site.
>
> > Does 890fx support IOMMU?
> > Do 890fx motherboards with IOMMU exist?
> > Does Xen support 890fx?
>
> > Regards,
> > Leonardo
>
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Sander mailto:linux@eikelenboom.it
>
>
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2010-05-09 18:01 ` IOMMU and AMD 890fx Leonardo Prosperi
2010-05-10 4:43 ` Huang2, Wei
2010-05-10 6:16 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-05-10 6:38 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2010-06-03 4:07 ` Leonardo Prosperi [this message]
2010-06-03 8:19 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2010-06-03 8:53 ` Joop Boonen
2010-06-03 9:23 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2010-06-03 10:51 ` Jens Krehbiel-Gräther
2010-06-03 11:11 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2010-06-04 6:14 ` Huang2, Wei
2010-06-06 9:08 ` Jens Krehbiel-Gräther
[not found] ` <4C0FF901.6090708@amd.com>
2010-06-10 7:12 ` Jens Krehbiel-Gräther
2010-06-10 7:23 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2010-06-10 10:21 ` Jens Krehbiel-Gräther
2010-06-10 18:01 ` Jens Krehbiel-Gräther
2010-06-03 11:26 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-06-03 11:50 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2010-06-03 11:51 ` Andre Przywara
2010-06-03 13:41 ` Jens Krehbiel-Gräther
2010-06-03 15:05 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-06-10 18:49 ` Andrew Oakley
2010-06-10 19:12 ` Wei Huang
2010-06-10 19:15 ` Andrew Oakley
2010-06-14 11:08 ` Jens Krehbiel-Gräther
2010-06-14 11:30 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-06-14 13:49 ` Andre Przywara
2010-06-15 21:37 ` Joop Boonen
2010-06-15 22:40 ` Huang2, Wei
2010-06-16 22:09 ` Jens Krehbiel-Gräther
2010-06-17 13:14 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-06-17 17:16 ` Wei Huang
2010-06-17 23:35 ` Jens Krehbiel-Gräther
2010-06-18 14:24 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2010-06-19 7:48 ` Jens Krehbiel-Gräther
2010-06-21 15:00 ` Jens Krehbiel-Gräther
2010-06-21 15:39 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-06-18 17:36 ` Huang2, Wei
2010-06-19 7:46 ` Jens Krehbiel-Gräther
[not found] ` <4C1A5882 <4C20E51D.1000406@jkg-it-services.de>
[not found] ` <EE335F95F28A664DB4A21289D2AA053B42F7C382@SAUSEXMBP01.amd.com>
2010-06-23 12:45 ` Jens Krehbiel-Gräther
2010-06-17 8:20 ` Jens Krehbiel-Gräther
2010-06-26 20:49 ` Joop Boonen
2010-07-06 14:54 ` Andrew Oakley
2010-07-06 15:03 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2010-07-07 7:47 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2010-07-07 10:37 ` Jens Krehbiel-Gräther
2010-07-07 13:53 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2010-07-07 18:28 ` Sander Eikelenboom
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