Re: [PATCH] x86, gart: fix gart detection for Fam11h CPUs

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Oct 28 2008 - 12:00:52 EST



* Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/k8.c | 1 -
> arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Joerg!

Ingo
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