Re: [qubes-users] Qubes/Xen doesn't comply with IOMMU grouping rules for PCI passthru

2020-01-06 Thread Claudia
December 30, 2019 7:12 PM, "qubes123" wrote: >> The improper grouping is probably somewhere in AGESA, which is provided > >>> to the manufacturers by AMD. It could be because of hardware related >>> limitations, which again are supplied by AMD. Sometimes vendors take >>> liberties (cost cutting

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes/Xen doesn't comply with IOMMU grouping rules for PCI passthru

2019-12-30 Thread qubes123
> The improper grouping is probably somewhere in AGESA, which is provided > > to the manufacturers by AMD. It could be because of hardware related > > limitations, which again are supplied by AMD. Sometimes vendors take > > liberties (cost cutting measures) with both and break functionality, as >

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes/Xen doesn't comply with IOMMU grouping rules for PCI passthru

2019-12-29 Thread brendan . hoar
On Sunday, December 29, 2019 at 7:25:49 PM UTC-5, Claudia wrote: > > Ha. Now that you mention it, I do remember laptops used to have PCIe > slots. But I think those days are pretty much over. > > On a side note, I remembered I saw some error about the IOMMU in the > kernel logs at some point. I

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes/Xen doesn't comply with IOMMU grouping rules for PCI passthru

2019-12-29 Thread Claudia
December 29, 2019 2:19 PM, "awokd' via qubes-users" wrote: > Claudia: > >> December 26, 2019 12:59 PM, "awokd' via qubes-users" >> wrote: >> >>> Claudia: >>> >>> TLDR; check bottom of https://community.amd.com/thread/241650, looks >>> like there was a recently released related updated. Not

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes/Xen doesn't comply with IOMMU grouping rules for PCI passthru

2019-12-29 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
Claudia: > December 26, 2019 12:59 PM, "awokd' via qubes-users" > wrote: > >> Claudia: >> >> TLDR; check bottom of https://community.amd.com/thread/241650, looks >> like there was a recently released related updated. Not sure if >> applicable to your situation. > > Thanks for the link! I'm not

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes/Xen doesn't comply with IOMMU grouping rules for PCI passthru

2019-12-27 Thread Claudia
December 26, 2019 12:59 PM, "awokd' via qubes-users" wrote: > Claudia: > > TLDR; check bottom of https://community.amd.com/thread/241650, looks > like there was a recently released related updated. Not sure if > applicable to your situation. Thanks for the link! I'm not sure if it affects me

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes/Xen doesn't comply with IOMMU grouping rules for PCI passthru

2019-12-26 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
Claudia: TLDR; check bottom of https://community.amd.com/thread/241650, looks like there was a recently released related updated. Not sure if applicable to your situation. > This caused a very sneaky problem on my machine. My USB controllers are in > the same group as my > GPU, sound card, and

[qubes-users] Qubes/Xen doesn't comply with IOMMU grouping rules for PCI passthru

2019-12-22 Thread Claudia
I'm very new to all this iommu stuff, but as I understand it, devices in the same iommu group are supposed to be treated as a single unit, meaning if any of them are assigned to a VM then they all must be assigned to the same VM. This is because those devices cannot be isolated from each other