A message went by too fast to read during boot so I looked in dmsg. I found nothing which has meaning to me. But I did see the following snippet that I am curious about. What does " Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup" mean? What is an aperture? Memory hole?
Thanks, -Denis [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=d7d8b1c0-f791-4bd6-98e0-a00044f8668e ro quiet splash [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) [ 0.000000] Checking aperture... [ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found [ 0.000000] Node 0: aperture @ 6002000000 size 32 MB [ 0.000000] Aperture beyond 4GB. Ignoring. [ 0.000000] Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole [ 0.000000] Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup [ 0.000000] This costs you 64 MB of RAM [ 0.000000] Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ cc000000 [ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000cc000000 - 00000000d0000000 [ 0.000000] Memory: 5894440k/6815744k available (6570k kernel code, 656264k absent, 265040k reserved, 6634k data, 924k init) [ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=15, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1 [ 0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation. [ 0.000000] RCU dyntick-idle grace-period acceleration is enabled. [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:16640 nr_irqs:712 16 [ 0.000000] spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
