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From: "Taiidan@×××.com" <Taiidan@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: adamcarter3@×××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with AMD_IOMMU
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 17:23:55
Message-Id: 20f2d0e7-55c7-c9b8-0f01-22781dd3b717@gmx.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Issues with AMD_IOMMU by Adam Carter
1 On 05/14/2017 01:31 AM, Adam Carter wrote:
2
3 > Tried kernels 4.10.13 and 4.11, with
4 > CONFIG_GART_IOMMU=y
5 > CONFIG_IOMMU_HELPER=y
6 > CONFIG_IOMMU_API=y
7 > CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT=y
8 > CONFIG_IOMMU_IOVA=y
9 > CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y
10 > CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU_V2=m
11 > Chipset is 990FX, and AFAICT the V2 is for the APU (bdver3 and 4 vintage).
12 >
13 > When I enable the IOMMU in the BIOS I get stack traces. Is anyone using
14 > AMD_IOMMU successfully? If so, any tips?
15 >
16 Is this a gentoo kernel or one from kernel.org?
17
18 What are the exact errors you are getting? random? can you post?
19 On 05/14/2017 11:06 AM, Alan Grimes wrote:
20 > Adam Carter wrote:
21 >> Tried kernels 4.10.13 and 4.11, with
22 >> CONFIG_GART_IOMMU=y
23 >> CONFIG_IOMMU_HELPER=y
24 >> CONFIG_IOMMU_API=y
25 >> CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT=y
26 >> CONFIG_IOMMU_IOVA=y
27 >> CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y
28 >> CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU_V2=m
29 >> Chipset is 990FX, and AFAICT the V2 is for the APU (bdver3 and 4 vintage).
30 >>
31 >> When I enable the IOMMU in the BIOS I get stack traces. Is anyone
32 >> using AMD_IOMMU successfully? If so, any tips?
33 > On a Phenom II? Yeah, I just retired mine a month ago. On that
34 > system, the IOMMU hardware was kinda a legacy orphan thingy, I had to go
35 > through all kinds of gyrations on the kernel command line in order to
36 > initialize it correctly. I think I had it off in the bios, then enabled
37 > it using a bunch of kernel commands.
38 990FX would probably be an AMD FX CPU such as the 8350, it usually works
39 fine and is enabled by default on most distros.