Re: Misc fixes for 2.6.27

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Sep 01 2008 - 19:01:29 EST


Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:32:16 +0200
> Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > +
>> > +static struct dmi_system_id __initdata intel_iommu_dmi_table[] = {
>> > + { /* Some DG33BU BIOS revisions advertised
>> > non-existent VT-d */
>>
>> Are you sure it's non existent? A G33 chipset should have it in
>> hardware I thought.
>
> nope they don't/
> later ones and some other models do though, but not the G33

I see. But presumably that chipset will be in other motherboards
too and that BIOS bug might be also wider spread. So it would be still
better to key off an PCI-ID or similar.

-Andi

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