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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86, gart: fix gart detection for Fam11h CPUs
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:55:25AM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:52:36AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:13:54PM +0100, Joerg Roedel 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@amd.com>
> >
> > Looks like this needs to be added to the 2.6.27-stable tree also, right?
>
> No, this patch not. The PCI id was added during the .28 merge window.

Ah, you are right, sorry about that, was looking at the wrong tree here.

greg k-h


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