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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Jouni Malinen <jkmalinen@gmail.com>,
Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
Nicolas Bareil <nico@chdir.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, j@w1.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, gart: fix gart detection for Fam11h CPUs
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:12:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081029231240.GA22325@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081029095525.GA6345@amd.com>
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:55:25AM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> 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 <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
> >
> > 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.
Ah, you are right, sorry about that, was looking at the wrong tree here.
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-29 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-14 7:20 USB problem on x86_64: nommu_map_single() issue? Nicolas Bareil
2008-10-14 9:48 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-10-14 10:45 ` Nicolas Bareil
2008-10-14 11:00 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-14 11:05 ` Nicolas Bareil
2008-10-14 11:14 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-14 17:11 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-14 11:00 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-10-14 13:43 ` Nicolas Bareil
2008-10-14 14:15 ` Nicolas Bareil
2008-10-28 9:07 ` Jouni Malinen
2008-10-28 15:13 ` [PATCH] x86, gart: fix gart detection for Fam11h CPUs Joerg Roedel
2008-10-28 16:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-28 16:52 ` Greg KH
2008-10-29 9:55 ` Joerg Roedel
2008-10-29 23:12 ` Greg KH [this message]
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