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From: Gregory Woodbury <redwolfe@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT???
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:10:46
Message-Id: CAJoOjx82X9wfu0MTsvFi8+_ozkv6QjQKr4=wDOTkhdRM1eQ0ng@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT??? by Hilco Wijbenga
1 On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Hilco Wijbenga
2 <hilco.wijbenga@×××××.com>wrote:
3
4 > On 23 August 2011 20:38, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > > Hi all,
6 > > Can someone point me toward somehow enabling CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT?
7 > > It is apparently a kernel config option no required by
8 > > virtualbox-drivers but I'm not finding it in the 3.0.3 kernel. I
9 > > suspect there's something else I need to enable before this option
10 > > becomes available? Unfortunately I haven't been able to Google what I
11 > > need to do to find it.
12 >
13
14 IOMMU_SUPPORT is a derived value that becomes set when any of the various
15 IOMMU
16 devices are enabled. I enabled the IBM "CALGARY" IOMMU and the AMD IOMMU to
17 get the
18 VBox build to stop complaining.
19
20 I was also getting complaints about PCI_STUB support from VBox, but the
21 running VMs don't
22 need the vboxpcistub.ko driver to work.
23
24 --
25 G.Wolfe Woodbury