Re: IOMMU and graphics cards

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu May 07 2009 - 13:05:07 EST


On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 02:15:35PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Well, it is not that simple. Having no workaround at all will not result
> in working proprietary drivers.

Which could be considered at not too bad thing anyway.

> More likely is that distros just disable
> the IOMMU because their customers want to use these drivers for working
> 3d acceleration.

Maybe Ubuntu :)

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