On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote:
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.
Yes. Most of these boards have VT-d but can't use it because the BIOS vendors fucked up and never once booted a VT-d-capable OS to test it. (And because the spec is bloody stupid and relies on BIOS tables rather than enumerating through PCI or something like that).
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