Haswell IOMMU bug that gets no response from maintainers

From: Alexander E. Patrakov
Date: Thu Apr 07 2016 - 00:26:27 EST


Hello.

In August 2013, I have reported this bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60769 . It has been determined on October 2013 to be a bug with IOMMU. The bug manifests itself as either unreliable or completely non-working HDMI audio on Haswell systems.

However, there have been no reaction of IOMMU experts to the bug, except two messages from David Woodhouse in November 2013. On PulseAudio mailing list and IRC channel we still have affected users (who blame PulseAudio and thus spread FUD), and I myself have to apply the "iommu=on,igfx_off" workaround.

Where and how do I escalate the bug? What other info (except DMAR dumps which are already in the bug) is needed?

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Alexander E. Patrakov