Re: IOMMU option in bios
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:48:07 +0100, Clive McBarton wrote:
> 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).
O.K., but disabling USB is not going to make any permament damage to your
system. Next boot your computer will be USB-aware again, so nothing you
should worry about.
>> 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.
Yep, Intel micro/chipset.
Maybe this message is AMD-centric? In fact, all messages in forum's
thread, as you noticed, are pointing to AMD micros. Someone here using
"AMD processor/64 bits Debian/8 GiB ram" could check for this message and
make any comment :-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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