linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] iommu/amd: Add logic to decode AMD IOMMU event flag

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Date:	Tue, 2 Apr 2013 18:04:00 +0200
From:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, suravee.suthikulpanit@....com,
	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] iommu/amd: Add logic to decode AMD IOMMU event flag

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 05:29:56PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 05:03:04PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:

> Good luck trying to get ASUS to fix anything in their BIOS :(.

Hmm...

> Can't we detect the SB IOAPIC some other way in this case?

I can certainly write a patch that works around your particular BIOS
bug. The problem is that such a fix will most certainly break other
systems.

Unfortunatly there is no reliable way to fixup the IO-APIC-ID->DEVID
mapping at runtime when the BIOS messed it up. The only thing I can do
is to check for potential problems and disable the intremap feature
then, so that the system will at least boot.

	Joerg

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