Andreas Kleen wrote:
>
> You need to use iommu=soft swiotlb=force
>
> The standard IOMMU is also broken on VIA, but forced swiotlb should
> work.
Didn't work :-(
Excepts from the log:
Bootdata ok (command line is BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.17-1-smp ro root=902
iommu=soft swiotlb=force single)
...
skge et
OK, here are the results with iommu=force. All of these are copied down
by hand, so please forgive any transcription errors:
2.6.12[1]: Last line displayed on screen is "ata1: dev 0 ATA max
UDMA/133 390721968 sectors, lba48". Then it sits there. Scrolling with
shift-pgup/pgdown works. Control-Alt-
Andi Kleen wrote:
> Is that a board with VIA chipset?
Yep.
>
> VIA doesn't seem to support PCI accesses with addresses >4GB and they also
> don't have a working GART IOMMU.
>
> It will likely work with iommu=force
I'll give this a try I do get a line in dmesg which reads:
PCI-DMA: Disabl
