Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:20:14 -0700
From: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
To: Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net>
Cc: karim@opersys.com, ak@suse.de, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: The system works (2.6.14-rc2): functional k8n-dl
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On 23.09.2005 [10:08:16 -0700], Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 17:29 -0400, Karim Yaghmour wrote:
> > Nish,
> > 
> > OK, I can confirm that with version 1006 of the BIOS it works flawlessly
> > with Linux. I was able to install full FC4 and boot without a problem
> > even with the SATA disk plugged to the nVidia controller (reading the
> > archives you will see that the nVidia SATA controller is something I
> > was simply unable to get working.) I didn't need to recompile anything.
> > The kernel that came with FC4 worked just fine.
> I can also confirm these findings.  However, I still have to boot the
> kernel with iommu=memaper=3 in order to get the system to work
> properly.  

You have 6GB of RAM, right? That must be the difference, as I only have
2 GB (and the IOMMU is used when you have more than 3 GB according to
menuconfig?).

Regardless, a better state now, I think?

Thanks,
Nish
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