On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:38:00PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Rodrigo Campos <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I wanted to know the status of PCI device assignment.
> >
> > As far as I can see in the webpage and in the mailing list, it seems to be
> > working ok if you have VT-d support on the motherboard and cpu. But if it
> > isn't
> > too much trouble, I wanted some confirmation about this, since I'm not sure
> > and
> > I don't want to buy hardware to test this when there is no way it's going to
> > work :)
>
> Yes, it works if you have VT-d support (Intel) or AMD IOMMU (note this
> is different than the AMD GART that's often used as an IOMMU). The
> Intel boxes are a lot easier to find.
For an AMD IOMMU you just need to buy a Mainboard with the AMD 890FX
chipset. As far as I know all available boards support IOMMU with the
latest BIOS.
On the server-side, look for an AMD SR56x0 chipset [where x=(5|7|9)].
Joerg
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