Re: [PATCH] x86, aperture: Check for GART before accessing GART registers

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Apr 14 2015 - 07:36:21 EST


On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 01:15:43PM +0200, JÃrg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

please do not top-post.

> tried this patch on my HP Pavilion notebook wiht AMD Phenom II processor. The
> BIOS has no IOMMU option.
> With this patch I'm still seeing the AGP messages mention in the patch description.
> Is this processor affected at all?

Your CPU has an AGP bridge but the BIOS doesn't leave an aperture so the
kernel has to do it. Read the message.

> /proc/cpuinfo says "cpu family" 16. That is 10h?

Yes.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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