Re: [PATCH 00/19] Fix Intel IOMMU breakage in kdump kernel

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 14:35 +0800, Li, ZhenHua wrote:
> Hi David,
> It is a bad idea to check the DMI match on "HP". Though I have not see
> any similar problems on other systems, I believe there are. Also not
> all HP systems have such problem.

Yeah, the HP suggestion was a little tongue-in-cheek. Although it does
seem to be HP who is the main offender in this area â both the BIOS
"value subtract" and the habit of doing utterly insane things with the
IOMMU.

> I agree with a blacklist for devices.

Do you have a list of the problematic ones? I think a blacklist *and*
an option to enable it for all devices might be the best solution.

-- 
dwmw2


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