Re: config changes

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Wright
* Matt Domsch (matt_dom...@dell.com) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 01:39:13PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > > Upstream was still broken as recently as Friday for bad BIOSes (x200s in > > this case). Wonder if opt-in via cmdline would be helpful? > > Do you know enough about the failure cases to

Re: config changes

2009-01-13 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:47:18PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > * Kyle McMartin (k...@infradead.org) wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 01:39:13PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > > > Upstream was still broken as recently as Friday for bad BIOSes (x200s in > > > this case). Wonder if opt-in via cmdlin

Re: config changes

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Wright
* Kyle McMartin (k...@infradead.org) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 01:39:13PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > > Upstream was still broken as recently as Friday for bad BIOSes (x200s in > > this case). Wonder if opt-in via cmdline would be helpful? > > A patch from Dirk Hohndel fixes this (looks l

Re: config changes

2009-01-13 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 01:39:13PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > * Dave Jones (da...@redhat.com) wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:55:27PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > > Here's some proposed config changes. > > > > > > Jumping on the wagon ;) > > > > > >

Re: config changes

2009-01-13 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 01:39:13PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > Upstream was still broken as recently as Friday for bad BIOSes (x200s in > this case). Wonder if opt-in via cmdline would be helpful? Do you know enough about the failure cases to DMI quirk it, plus an opt-out command line option, wi

Re: config changes

2009-01-13 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Chris Wright wrote: > Upstream was still broken as recently as Friday for bad BIOSes (x200s in > this case). Wonder if opt-in via cmdline would be helpful? Like the attached patch? Disclaimer: untested, build still running ... thanks, Gerd diff --git a/drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c b/drivers/pci/

Re: config changes

2009-01-13 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "DJ" == Dave Jones writes: DJ> The last time we tried this, it blew up a lot due to broken DJ> BIOSes. Yes, this used to kill a bunch of my machines dead. It may be better now; I'm quite willing to boot test kernels if someone wants to point me at one. - J<

Re: config changes

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Wright
* Dave Jones (da...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:55:27PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Here's some proposed config changes. > > > > Jumping on the wagon ;) > > > > Can we enable CONFIG_DMAR please? This turns on the IOMMU on intel > > boxe

Re: config changes

2009-01-13 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:21:52PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:55:27PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > > Here's some proposed config changes. > > > > > > Jumping on the wagon ;) > > > > > > Can we enable CONFI

Re: config changes

2009-01-13 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:55:27PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Here's some proposed config changes. > > > > Jumping on the wagon ;) > > > > Can we enable CONFIG_DMAR please? This turns on the IOMMU on intel > > boxes, using VT-d. Calle

Re: config changes

2009-01-13 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:55:27PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Here's some proposed config changes. > > Jumping on the wagon ;) > > Can we enable CONFIG_DMAR please? This turns on the IOMMU on intel > boxes, using VT-d. Called "DMA Remapping" in intel speak,

Re: config changes

2009-01-13 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Bill Nottingham wrote: > Here's some proposed config changes. Jumping on the wagon ;) Can we enable CONFIG_DMAR please? This turns on the IOMMU on intel boxes, using VT-d. Called "DMA Remapping" in intel speak, this is where the config option name comes from. Advantages: (1) 32bit PCI devic

Change set acpi_enforce_resources default to strict ?

2009-01-13 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi Dave, The ACPI subsystem has a kernelcmdline setting called acpi_enforce_resources which defaults to lax, I would like to propose to change this the default to strict in *rawhide*. As you may (not) know I'm an active contributor to the lm_sensors project both to the userspace tools as to