Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753661AbYJ2J4N (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:56:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753094AbYJ2Jz5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:55:57 -0400 Received: from outbound-dub.frontbridge.com ([213.199.154.16]:5062 "EHLO IE1EHSOBE001.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751461AbYJ2Jz4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:55:56 -0400 X-BigFish: VPS-29(zz1432R98dR1805M936fOzzzzz32i6bh43j62h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 1:0 X-WSS-ID: 0K9HVKE-03-H0M-01 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:55:25 +0100 From: Joerg Roedel To: Greg KH CC: Ingo Molnar , Jouni Malinen , Oliver Neukum , Nicolas Bareil , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, j@w1.fi Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, gart: fix gart detection for Fam11h CPUs Message-ID: <20081029095525.GA6345@amd.com> References: <1225206834-6189-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> <20081028165236.GA4503@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081028165236.GA4503@kroah.com> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Oct 2008 09:55:25.0937 (UTC) FILETIME=[77889E10:01C939AC] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1500 Lines: 31 On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:52:36AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:13:54PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote: > > The AMD Fam11h CPUs have a K8 northbridge. This northbridge is different > > from other familys because it lacks GART support (as I just learned). > > But the kernel implicitly expects a GART if it finds an AMD northbridge. > > Fix this by removing the Fam11h northbridge id from the scan list of K8 > > northbridges. This patch also changes the message in the GART driver > > about missing K8 northbridges to tell that the GART is missing which is > > the correct information in this case. > > > > Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel > > Looks like this needs to be added to the 2.6.27-stable tree also, right? No, this patch not. The PCI id was added during the .28 merge window. Joerg -- | AMD Saxony Limited Liability Company & Co. KG Operating | Wilschdorfer Landstr. 101, 01109 Dresden, Germany System | Register Court Dresden: HRA 4896 Research | General Partner authorized to represent: Center | AMD Saxony LLC (Wilmington, Delaware, US) | General Manager of AMD Saxony LLC: Dr. Hans-R. Deppe, Thomas McCoy -- 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/