MSI 890FXA-GD70 BIOS 1.90+ stalls kernel with enabled IOMMU (drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_init.c)

2015-01-18 Thread Andreas Thalhammer
Hello! I have the following problem: my mainboard is an MSI 890FXA-GD70. I use BIOS revision 1.80 at the moment and the IOMMU is enabled in the BIOS. The IOMMU is recognized by the kernel and seems to work. I would like to update my BIOS again to revision 1.15, which is known to freeze the Linux

[Topic closed] A Desktop Linux idea: modulized open hardware database for the linux kernel config

2013-11-03 Thread andreas . thalhammer
Theodore Ts'o wrote on Sunday, 03rd November 2013: > It's an idea that people have tossed around before, but utltimately, > it's far more work than it's worth, and it's a maintenance nightmare. > For most non-technical users, using a distro kernel is quite good > enough. Yes, I get it. Thanks for

Re for el_es: A Desktop Linux idea: modulized open hardware database for the linux kernel config

2013-11-03 Thread andreas . thalhammer
> linux.com> writes: >[cut down because of gmane's web interface quotation policy] > >> But hey, it was just an idea. A stupid one maybe. So thanks for answering >> anyway. >> > > >Uh like any great idea, you need to show the world, how >serious you are about it : do the first step and collect a

Re: A Desktop Linux idea: modulized open hardware database for the linux kernel config

2013-11-03 Thread andreas . thalhammer
> linux.com> writes: >[cut down because of gmane's web interface quotation policy] > >> But hey, it was just an idea. A stupid one maybe. So thanks for answering >> anyway. >> > > >Uh like any great idea, you need to show the world, how >serious you are about it : do the first step and collect a

Re: A Desktop Linux idea: modulized open hardware database for the linux kernel config

2013-11-03 Thread andreas . thalhammer
Your message from Sunday, 03rd November 2013: > andreas.thalham...@linux.com wrote: > > Hello LKML! > > > > I am a Linux Desktop user since around 2001. Doing the math, that’s more > > than a decade! > > > > Having watched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjRAKuis7T8 (LinuxCon 2013, > > Dirk Hohnd

A Desktop Linux idea: modulized open hardware database for the linux kernel config

2013-11-03 Thread andreas . thalhammer
Hello LKML! I am a Linux Desktop user since around 2001. Doing the math, that’s more than a decade! Having watched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjRAKuis7T8 (LinuxCon 2013, Dirk Hohndel and Linus Torvalds on stage) I decided to share an idea I had to make kernel building easier for computer e