On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 08:43 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 23:07 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > We now know how to deal with these tables so that they are harmless. > > Use the TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND flag and don't say the BIOS is > > 'broken' as this makes users think of hardware damage. > > Nack to the string change. If you see this message, it's because your > BIOS is BROKEN, and this brokenness has caused us to have to disable the > VT-d feature completely. The fuckwits obviously never tested it even as > far as booting a VT-d enabled OS on it even once¹. [...] Are you saying that these bogus tables are found on boards that do have VT-d hardware? I was working on the assumption that these tables result from the OEM building a BIOS with VT-d support for a board where the hardware is not present. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.
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