Hi,
Please try build 133 when it comes out. A rewritten IOMMU driver
will be available then which should fix all of the intel IOMMU issues.
That said, these ACERs seem to have at least one other problem not
related to the IOMMU and that will not be fixed by the rewrite.
Also look for updated BIOS from ACER.
Vikram
On Friday 22 January 2010 16:46:59 Daniel Rock wrote:
> > This time it appears to get much farther. The last
> > two lines are:
> >
> > 8042 device: mouse at 1,mouse8042 #0
> > mouse80420 is /pci at 0,0/isa at 1f/i8042 at 1,20/mouse01
>
> This sounds familiar to me. I have an Acer TM8371 and also have
issues with
> it. For this machine to boot I need *both* options: -B intel-
iommu=no and
> -B disable-ehci=true
>
> When the IOMMU is enabled the machine panics very early in boot
with a page
> fault. If I am lucky I get dropped back to kmdb, but the stack
backtrace
> is meaningless. Most of the time the system resets itself though.
>
> The console only shows the last 24 lines, so I have no idea of the
messages
> the kernel printed out before the page fault.
>
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