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Re: IOMMU option in bios



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Camaleón wrote:
> Didn' you try some of the tips? They only require passing some options to 
> the kernel at boot time and there is nothing harmful in doing that :-?

Most of them are harmless. Some even make the error message go away. At
least one of the suggestions (passing the option iommu=false) ist
harmful though (disables USB).

> I passed the link not because it provided a "magic solution" but for you 
> get an idea of the origin of that message and how to bypass it ;-)

Yes, I agree.

> I am not getting that message in dmesg (running lenny amd64, 8 GiB.) 
> *but* my BIOS has "memory reclaiming" enabled.

Interesting. Intel CPU? Because in the forum whose link you posted, all
the CPUs in people's signatures were (as far as I see) made by AMD.
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