Re: IOMMU option in bios

2010-03-19 Thread Camaleón
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

Re: IOMMU option in bios

2010-03-19 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: IOMMU option in bios

2010-03-19 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:02:50 +0100, Clive McBarton wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Not sure if this has something to do with some BIOS option that allow >> "memmory remapping" :-? > > There's no such option. Not in any BIOS I've ever seen. That could be the problem. >> There is an Ubuntu forum thr

Re: IOMMU option in bios

2010-03-18 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón wrote: > Not sure if this has something to do with some BIOS option that allow > "memmory remapping" :-? There's no such option. Not in any BIOS I've ever seen. > There is an Ubuntu forum thread that may help a bit It doesn't. It's a long

Re: IOMMU option in bios

2010-03-18 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:08:30 -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: > I was looking over a dmesg output and I noticed a message that said I > would save 64MB of RAM if I enabled the IOMMU option in the bios. > > I'm using an ASUS M4A79XTD EVO board with 8GB of RAM so maybe freeing up > 64MB of RAM isn't t

IOMMU option in bios

2010-03-17 Thread Charles Kroeger
I was looking over a dmesg output and I noticed a message that said I would save 64MB of RAM if I enabled the IOMMU option in the bios. I'm using an ASUS M4A79XTD EVO board with 8GB of RAM so maybe freeing up 64MB of RAM isn't that big of a deal; however, I had a look in the bios setup and saw not

Re: IOMMU option in bios

2010-03-16 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Charles Kroeger skrev: I was looking over a dmesg output and I noticed a message that said I would save 64MB of RAM if I enabled the IOMMU option in the bios. Can anyone eleborate on this message in dmesg? A post that tries to elaborate is at

IOMMU option in bios

2010-03-16 Thread Charles Kroeger
I was looking over a dmesg output and I noticed a message that said I would save 64MB of RAM if I enabled the IOMMU option in the bios. I'm using an ASUS M4A79XTD EVO board with 8GB of RAM so maybe freeing up 64MB of RAM isn't that big of a deal; however, I had a look in the bios setup and saw not