On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 00:31 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:22:45AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 08:49 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > Looks good to me, I'll queue it up. > > > > > > Is this something that can wait for .32, or do you have hardware that is > > > broken today that this fixes? > > > > This kind of BIOS bug probably accounts for _most_ of the 'VT-d crashes > > my machine' bugs that I've seen recently. Even for the ones which _did_ > > turn out to be more interesting, we had to disable Legacy USB support in > > the BIOS before we could get any further. So if you're happy to push it > > sooner, that would be useful. > > I'd feel better waiting, disabling Legacy USB support in the BIOS is a > recommended thing to do all the time anyway :) Nah, .32 is fine. I'd be happier reading the configured DMA addresses from the active USB controllers and bitching loudly about broken BIOSes (if the addresses we find aren't correctly listed in RMRR tables). This patch _works_ but doesn't quite have the desired effect :) -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
