linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, gart: fix gart detection for Fam11h CPUs

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Message-ID: <20081028160026.GB27531@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:00:26 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
Cc:	Jouni Malinen <jkmalinen@...il.com>,
	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>,
	Nicolas Bareil <nico@...ir.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, j@...fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, gart: fix gart detection for Fam11h CPUs


* Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com> wrote:

> The AMD Fam11h CPUs have a K8 northbridge. This northbridge is 
> different from other familys because it lacks GART support (as I 
> just learned). But the kernel implicitly expects a GART if it finds 
> an AMD northbridge. Fix this by removing the Fam11h northbridge id 
> from the scan list of K8 northbridges. This patch also changes the 
> message in the GART driver about missing K8 northbridges to tell 
> that the GART is missing which is the correct information in this 
> case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/k8.c          |    1 -
>  arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Joerg!

	Ingo
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