Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751455AbXAPUbf (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:31:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751457AbXAPUbf (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:31:35 -0500 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:36469 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751472AbXAPUbe (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:31:34 -0500 To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: Robert Hancock , Christoph Anton Mitterer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, knweiss@gmx.de, ak@suse.de, andersen@codepoet.org, krader@us.ibm.com, lfriedman@nvidia.com, linux-nforce-bugs@nvidia.com Subject: Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?) References: <459C3F29.2@shaw.ca> <45AC06B2.3060806@scientia.net> <45AC08B9.5020007@scientia.net> <45AC1AEB.60805@shaw.ca> <45ACD918.2040204@scientia.net> <45ACE07D.3050207@shaw.ca> <20070116180154.GA1335@tuatara.stupidest.org> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:31:31 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20070116180154.GA1335@tuatara.stupidest.org> (Chris Wedgwood's message of "Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:01:54 -0800") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 812 Lines: 20 Chris Wedgwood writes: > right now i'm thinking if we can't figure out which cpu/bios > combinations are safe we might almost be better off doing iommu=soft > for *all* k8 stuff except for those that are whitelisted; though this > seems extremely drastic Do you (someone) have (maintain) a list of affected systems, including motherboard type and possibly version, BIOS version and CPU type? A similar list of unaffected systems with 4GB+ RAM could be useful, too. I'm afraid with default iommu=soft it will be a mystery forever. -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/