Re: [PATCH 1/3] iommu/amd: Add logic to decode AMD IOMMU event flag

From: Suravee Suthikulpanit
Date: Tue Apr 02 2013 - 11:41:41 EST


On 4/2/2013 10:29 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 05:03:04PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 04:40:37PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
While you guys are at it, can someone fix this too pls (ASUS board with
a PD on it).

[ 0.220342] [Firmware Bug]: AMD-Vi: IOAPIC[9] not in IVRS table
[ 0.220398] [Firmware Bug]: AMD-Vi: IOAPIC[10] not in IVRS table
[ 0.220451] [Firmware Bug]: AMD-Vi: No southbridge IOAPIC found in IVRS table
[ 0.220506] AMD-Vi: Disabling interrupt remapping due to BIOS Bug(s)
That is actually a BIOS problem. I wonder whether it would help to turn this
into a WARN_ON to get the board vendors to release working BIOSes.
Opinions?
Good luck trying to get ASUS to fix anything in their BIOS :(.
I have tried to contact Asus in the past to have them fix the issue, but I got no luck. Once it is out in the field, it's very difficult to get them to make changes. I am also addressing this issue with the BIOS team for the future hardware.

Turning this into WARN_ON() at this point might break a lot of systems currently out in the field. However, users can always switching to use "intremap=off" but this might not be obvious.

Suravee

Can't we detect the SB IOAPIC some other way in this case?



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