Re: AMD 970 chipset support in Linux?

From: Roedel, Joerg
Date: Mon Oct 10 2011 - 06:12:03 EST


On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 06:56:33AM -0400, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 10:50:32AM +0200, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm wondering, if the new AMD 900 chipsets (970, 990X and 990FX) are
> > already supported in Linux (since which kernel version?).
> >
> > I'm interested because these boards ship with a IOMMU, which I plan to use.
>
> Let's ask Jörg.

If any, only 990FX supports IOMMU (like 890FX does). Note that the BIOS
also needs to support IOMMU.

Joerg

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