Re: [PATCH 2/2] iommu: dmar -- reserve mmio space used by IOMMU

2012-06-06 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 10:16 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: So basically the patch-set is fine as-is, we just want a sufficiently nasty sounding warning message about the BIOS bug, No. The other change that's required is that the warning and the workaround need to trigger even when IOMMU support

Re: [PATCH 2/2] iommu: dmar -- reserve mmio space used by IOMMU

2012-06-06 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 10:29 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: So for all practical purposes we get 99% of the warning power without going into chicken-and-egg problems like how do we determine that there's an IOMMU area there if there's no IOMMU aware code in the kernel, right? That's not a

Re: [PATCH 2/2] iommu: dmar -- reserve mmio space used by IOMMU

2012-06-06 Thread Chris Wright
* David Woodhouse (dw...@infradead.org) wrote: On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 10:29 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: So for all practical purposes we get 99% of the warning power without going into chicken-and-egg problems like how do we determine that there's an IOMMU area there if there's no IOMMU