config changes

[Chris Wright]

* Kyle McMartin (kyle at infradead.org) wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 01:39:13PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> > Upstream was still broken as recently as Friday for bad BIOSes (x200s in
> > this case).  Wonder if opt-in via cmdline would be helpful?
> 
> A patch from Dirk Hohndel fixes this (looks like it got merged
> Sundayish, after floating around linux-pci for a week.) AFAIK, at least.

Yeah, that's the case I was referring to.  Mostly thinking that any
feature like VT-d relying on BIOS will have some time to get defensive
enough for all the ways BIOS can screw up the feature.

thanks,
-chris