On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 07:00:08PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote: > 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)].
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