config changes

Kyle McMartin kyle at infradead.org
Tue Jan 13 22:50:13 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:47:18PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> * 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.
> 

No doubt it's going to end up like MSI. :(

regards, Kyle




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