Subject: Re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole

From: Anthony DeRobertis <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:24:17 -0400

Andi Kleen wrote:

> Is that a board with VIA chipset?

Yep.

> 
> VIA doesn't seem to support PCI accesses with addresses >4GB and they also
> don't have a working GART IOMMU.
> 
> It will likely work with iommu=force

I'll give this a try.... I do get a line in dmesg which reads:

PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU.