* Kyle McMartin (kyle(a)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