f9 iommu
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200808 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 18:43:03 UTC 2008
I'm trying to bring up F9 on an Asus M3A78-T (a relatively new AMD
Phenom-x4 capable board). Going through /var/log/messages I see that
the kernel doesn't think the BIOS enabled the IOMMU and gripes about
it.
Googleing a bit found me a magic parameter to add to grub.conf,
"iommu=memaper=4". That gets me a new error message preceding the
former: "kernel: Aperture pointing to e820 RAM. Ignoring.". I do have
over 4g of dram, so having a bounce-buffer sounds important, but I'm
plumb out of ideas. Is there a slower fallback the kernel is using
(like purely software moves???) for systems that don't have a working
IOMMU?
-wolfgang
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